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.
"Yiddish Wasn't the Joy It Is for Me Now": My Changing Relationship to the Yiddish Language
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Julijus Gurevich - active member of the Vilnius, Lithuania Jewish community - tells how growing up in a Yiddish-speaking family wasn't always easy, but has since become very important for him.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Julijus Gurevich.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Julijus Gurevich was born in Vilna, Lithuania.
