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.
When Yiddish is the Lingua Franca
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David Schorr, a retired forensic engineer, relates his experiences travelling around the world, and finding that sometimes - still! - Yiddish is the common language.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Schorr.
This excerpt is in English.
David Schorr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1931.