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.
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David Schlitt, 2010-11 Yiddish Book Center Fellow, describes the Jewish home he grew up in and how it changed as he began his education at a Jewish day school.
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.