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.

Future of Yiddish

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Israel Bartal - Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew University - explains why he believes there is little future for Yiddish in Eastern Europe.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Israel Bartal.

This excerpt is in English.