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 Curses

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Childhood Yiddish speaker, Marilyn Cassotta, recalls several Yiddish curses she knew from childhood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marilyn Cassotta.

This excerpt is in English.

Marilyn Cassotta was born in Bronx, New York in 1933.

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1 min 19 sec

The Yiddish Language Contains Everything Good About Being Jewish

1 min 8 sec

Fresh Gefilte Fish: Secular Observance of Jewish Traditions

1 min 13 sec

Falling in Love with Yiddish through Literature

1 min 11 sec

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