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.
Yiddish Getting Lost in the Melting Pot of Canadian and American Schools
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Alice Ahart explains how even though Yiddish was her first language, she was discouraged to speak it at school.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Alice Ahart.
This excerpt is in English.
Alice Ahart was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 1932. Alice died in 2021.
