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 Lithuanian-Jewish Family Where Everyone Speaks Yiddish
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Julijus Gurevich - active member of the Vilnius, Lithuania Jewish community - describes his Yiddish-speaking family, from the grandfather who championed the language to the nieces growing up speaking it.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Julijus Gurevich.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Julijus Gurevich was born in Vilna, Lithuania.
