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.

From My Grandmother's Library, Truths About The Jewish People

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Stage director Mikhl (Michael) Yashinsky talks about Yiddish as it's spoken in his family, and how his grandmother, a Yiddishist and former actor, has inspired him.

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.