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: Secret Language of Parents
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Harold Edelstein, retired chemist, describes his parents' use of Yiddish as a way to keep secrets from the children.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Harold Edelstein.
This excerpt is in English.
Harold Edelstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1938.
