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.
Memory and Resistance: Defeating the Final Solution By Preserving Yiddish Culture
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Riva Ginsburg, daughter of Holocaust survivors and Yiddish teacher and translator, describes the unique challenges faced by the children of survivors. She explains how Yiddish culture is both an agent of healing and a defiant affirmation of Jewish survival.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Riva Ginsburg.
This excerpt is in English.
Riva Ginsburg was born in Fahrenvald, Germany in 1948.
