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

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Anne (Khane) Eakin Moss, Yiddishist and Russian Literature Professor, discusses one challenge of raising children in Yiddish: the need to study extensively in order to be able to fully express oneself.

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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