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.
Learning the Jewish Context for Yiddish Words
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Alyson West, student in the 2011 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program, explains the challenge of learning Yiddish as a non-Jew without the Jewish context to place it in.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Alyson West.
This excerpt is in English.
Alyson West was born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1989.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
