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.
"Your Good Fortune Should Be As Beautiful As You Are": My Father's Yiddish Expression
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Elaine Trehub - retired Mount Holyoke College archivist - shares an old Yiddish blessing her father used to say to her as a child.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elaine Trehub.
This excerpt is in English.
Elaine Trehub was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1928. Elaine died in 2018.