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.

"Hak Mir Nisht Keyn Tschaynik!": My Favorite Yiddish Phrase

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Joseph Heller, summer 2013 Steiner student, shares his favorite Yiddish phrase, "Hak mir nisht keyn tschaynik," and tells an amusing anecdote concerning his brother, his mother and a tschaynik (teapot).

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joseph Heller.

This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.

Joseph Heller was born in 1994.

This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

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1 min 26 sec

Yiddish is Not Dead, It's Taken On a New Form

1 min 40 sec

Yiddish Became a Burden During the McCarthy Era

1 min 23 sec

"All That Remains is a Dream" - The Bittersweet Nostalgia of "Vu Iz Dos Gesele?"

1 min 35 sec

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