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.

Yiddish is Alive

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Sarah Bunin Benor - professor of Jewish studies and linguistics - insists that though Yiddish is taught in universities, the language is alive in the Hasidic world.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sarah Bunin Benor.

This excerpt is in English.

Sarah Bunin Benor was born in Washington, D.C. in 1975.