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.

"It's Current, It's Future:" Yiddishkeit is Waiting To Be Explored By Future Generations

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Mindle Crystel Gross, native speaker and translator, exhorts future generations of Jews to delve into Yiddish culture in order to ensure its continuity.

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.