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.
Linguistic Diversity in Palestine of the Forties
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Israel Bartal - Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew University - remembers the mixture of languages in Tel Aviv in the 1940s. Languages bore specific connotations and coexisted in a hierarchy, which was largely influenced by the Eastern European background of their speakers.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Israel Bartal.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.