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.
“Although I Loved Her Dearly, I Blame Her for Losing My Yiddish”
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David Schorr, a retired forensic engineer, remembers speaking Yiddish with his grandmother as a child– until she decided to learn English.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Schorr.
This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.
David Schorr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1931.
