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.