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.
He Spoke My Parents' Dialect
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Israel Bartal - Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew University - shares the story of getting a letter from a klezmer musician from Galicia who spoke his parents' dialect.
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.