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.

Why Learn Yiddish? Literature, And To Understand the Past

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Anna Stusser, 2011 Steiner Summer Program student, talks about her reasons for learning Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Anna Stusser.

This excerpt is in English.

Anna Stusser was born in Seattle, Washington in 1990.