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, and Other Secret Languages

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Eli Kwartler, the Jewish Community of Amherst co-president, remembers the multiple languages his relatives would use when he was growing up.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eli Kwartler.

This excerpt is in English.

Eli Kwartler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929.