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 Yiddish Language Contains Everything Good About Being Jewish
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Childhood Yiddish speaker, Marilyn Cassotta, lovingly describes how, to her, all the best elements of being Jewish are wrapped up in the Yiddish language. Cassotta illuminates how the values she learned from Yiddish are still with her today.
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.
