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.
My Favorite Untranslatable Yiddish Words & Curses
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Rose Bergman - retired teacher and daughter of Holocaust survivors - shares Yiddish phrases that she feels can't be translated, including a pair of Yiddish curses.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rose Bergman.
This excerpt is in English.
Rose Bergman was born in Lodz, Poland in 1947.
