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.

A Father and Son on the Future of Yiddish

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Leo Melamed - child survivor of the Holocaust and former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - shares his father's views on the future of Yiddish and contrasts them with his own.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Leo Melamed.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Leo Melamed was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1932.