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.

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

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David Schlitt, 2010-11 Yiddish Book Center Fellow, discusses his experience with Yiddish programs. He talks specifically about his experience in Vilna and his negativity towards the place because of the Holocaust.

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.