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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.

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Robert Epstein talks about Hasidic Yiddish, and the value of translating the literature into English.

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.