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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Anna Muench explores her own motivation for learning Yiddish, as a participant in the Yiddish Book Center's January-term course.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Anna Muench.

This excerpt is in English.

Anna Muench was born in Beverley, Massachusetts in 1991.