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.

We Were Never Ashamed of Being Jews or Speaking Yiddish in Lithuania

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Julijus Gurevich - active member of the Vilnius, Lithuania Jewish community - describes his family's use of Yiddish in the context of Soviet Union and Lithuanian language politics.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Julijus Gurevich.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Julijus Gurevich was born in Vilna, Lithuania.