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.

His Yiddish Background

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Robert Epstein describes his parents' emphasis on Jewish education, and how this resulted in him learning Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Robert Epstein.

This excerpt is in English.

Robert Epstein was born in New York, New York in 1927.