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 Among Jews and in Popular Culture

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David Slucki, Professor of Jewish Studies at Austraila's Monash University, discusses the place of Yiddish in Jewish culture as a language often associated with leftist politics and diasporic Judaism. Slucki goes on to consider how Yiddish has entered popular American culture.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Slucki.

This excerpt is in English.

David Slucki was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1984.