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.

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

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Anne (Khane) Eakin Moss - Yiddishist and Russian Literature Professor - describes she and her husband's parents' reaction to their plan to raise their children in Yiddish, and what it is like for Yiddish-speaking grandchildren to visit their English-speaking grandparents.

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.

Other video highlights from this oral history

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2 min 13 sec

Learning Yiddish through Classes, Conversation, and Yidish-vokh

2 min 14 sec

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

2 min 17 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

Advice for Raising Children in Yiddish: It Should Be Fun for Them

2 min 22 sec

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