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.

What Does Yiddish Mean to Me?

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Sarah Bunin Benor - professor of Jewish studies and linguistics - explains her interest in the way the Yiddish language linguistically captured much of the Ashkenazim way of life.

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.