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.
Not Knowing the Language, but Knowing of the Language: Speaking Biblical Hebrew in Israel
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Marcin Wodzinski, Director of the Centre for the Culture and Languages of the Jews at University of Wrocław, on the difficulty of speaking a language learned from Jewish tombstones and the Book of Ruth.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marcin Wodzinski.
This excerpt is in English.
Marcin Wodzinski was born in Swidnicy, Poland in 1966.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.