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.

Words blended into Yiddish

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Han Xu talks about the little words inserted into Yiddish speech.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Han Xu.

This excerpt is in English.

Han Xu was born in Shanghai, China in 1989.