The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

A Very Telling Dream: Yiddish in Israel

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Sarah Gordon describes how a dream she had in Israel compelled her to study Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sarah Gordon.

This excerpt is in English.

Sarah Gordon was born in New York, New York in 1979.