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.

Falling in Love with Yiddish through Literature

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Childhood Yiddish speaker, Marilyn Cassotta, recalls how she fell in love with Yiddish through reading the greats of Yiddish literature. She describes the beauty and possibilities she found in the language through reading and how much it meant to her.

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.