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.

"If You Speak Yiddish You Can Get Along Wherever You Are:" Story of how Yiddish Spurred Serendipitous Reunion

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Riva Ginsburg, daughter of Holocaust survivors and Yiddish teacher and translator, describes how she has connected with Yiddish speakers all over the world, including a cab driver in Jerusalem who survived the Shoah with her father.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Riva Ginsburg.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Riva Ginsburg was born in Fahrenvald, Germany in 1948.