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.

We Kids Spoke English to Each Other, Not Yiddish

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Gloria Fein - tour guide at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam - explains that children in her New York elementary school spoke English to each other and describes how they made fun of her Lithuanian Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gloria Fein.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Gloria Fein was born in Münich, Germany in 1948.

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Seeking Out Yiddish Speakers in Holland

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The Influence of Sephardic Culture in Holland

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