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.

"A Language That Was Murdered": Reflections On Yiddish

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Sara Kruzansky, teacher of Jewish history, explains her view of Yiddish today. As a spoken language, she says, it was murdered when the people were murdered.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sara Kruzansky.

This excerpt is in English.

Sara Kruzansky was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1921. Sara died in 2013.