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.
Grandparents and Interest in Yiddish
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Elissa Kraemer, student in the 2010 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program, remembers how she found out Yiddish was a real language.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elissa Kraemer.
This excerpt is in English.
Elissa Kraemer was born in Sarasota, Florida in 1989.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
