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.

How To Raise Children in Yiddish: Start from the Beginning and Use Your Dictionaries

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Anne (Khane) Eakin Moss, Yiddishist and Russian Literature Professor, explains how she and her husband raised their children speaking Yiddish, and how it is now strange for her to use child-rearing vocabulary in English.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Anne (Khane) Eakin Moss.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Anne (Khane) Eakin Moss was born in New Jersey in 1973.

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2 min 22 sec

Klezmer Music Helped Me Discover the Creative Power of Yiddish

2 min 13 sec

Learning Yiddish through Classes, Conversation, and Yidish-vokh

2 min 14 sec

Our Parents Reactions to Our Decision to Raise Our Children in Yiddish

2 min 9 sec

Baltimore Pripetshik: A Yiddish Playgroup for Children

4 min 58 sec

"It's Worth It": We Work Hard To Be Able to Express Ourselves in Yiddish

2 min 11 sec

A Network of Yiddish-Speaking Friends All Over the World

1 min 53 sec

"Yiddishist" Is the Only Label that Encompasses My Whole Identity

1 min 7 sec

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