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.

"Being Connected in Any Way is Important to Me": Yiddish and My Jewish Identity

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Bina Addes, Wexler Oral Historian and child of Holocaust survivors, speaks about her own connection to Yiddishkeit, the diffusion of Yiddish into mainstream culture, and the need to actively preserve Jewish traditions following the Holocaust.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bina Addes.

This excerpt is in English.

Bina Addes was born in Germany in 1947.

Other video highlights from this oral history

"I Certainly Felt in the Minority": Jewish Life in Amherst vs. New York

2 min 57 sec

A Hope for Cultural Transmission

1 min 59 sec

What It Means to Be Second Generation

5 min 14 sec

Two Different Fathers

3 min 8 sec

My Father's Family Had Good Relations with the Christians During the War

1 min 14 sec

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