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.

Action Figures in the Sukkah: “A Very American Kind of Yiddishkayt”

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Mikhl (Michael) Yashinsky - stage director and Yiddish language student - describes his family's unusual sukkah and its unique décor.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mikhl (Michael) Yashinsky.

This excerpt is in English.

Mikhl (Michael) Yashinsky was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1988.