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 Yiddish Song: Reyzele
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Mindle Crystel Gross, native speaker and translator, recites the Yiddish song "Reyzele" that her mother sang to her as a girl.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mindle Crystel Gross.
This excerpt is in English.
Mindle Crystel Gross was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.