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.

Early Memory of Yiddish

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Ari Greenberg describes a play he wrote as a child. The play included some Yiddish, and he would work on it with his grandfather.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ari Greenberg.

This excerpt is in English.

Ari Greenberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1983.