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.

Yiddish Salvages a Columbia Undergrad Education

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David Schlitt, 2010-11 Yiddish Book Center Fellow, discusses his experiences at Columbia University and how he eventually found himself through an intense study of Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Schlitt.

This excerpt is in English.

David Schlitt was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1981.

This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

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I'm a Partisan on Behalf of the Jews: Studying Yiddish in Lithuania

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