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.

The Spirit of Yiddish in Young People

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Paul Berg, Yiddish activist, discusses the importance of getting youth interested in Yiddish, describing the efforts of the Yiddish Book Center and his own Yiddish group in San Diego.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul Berg.

This excerpt is in English.

Paul Berg was born in New York, New York in 1935.