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 in the Knitting Store
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Miriam Slater, retired professor of European history, describes working in her guardian's yarn store as a teenager and how the store became a place for Holocaust survivors to gather and speak Yiddish.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Miriam Slater.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
