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.

What It Means To Be a Litvak

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Julijus Gurevich - active member of the Vilnius, Lithuania Jewish community - reflects on what it means to be a Litvak and how that identity connects to Vilna's history at Yerushalayim de Lita.

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

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Julijus Gurevich was born in Vilna, Lithuania.