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.
"At Least They Made Fun of It!": Generational Differences in Attitudes Toward Yiddish in Israel
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Itay Zutra, the I. L. Peretz Folk School Yiddish Teaching Fellow at the University of Manitoba, speaks about how older Israelis view Yiddish as something effeminate, sentimental and weak (and cites the 1971 Israeli film Shablul as an example), whereas the Israelis of his generation paid no attention to it whatsoever.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Itay Zutra.
This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.
Itay Zutra was born in Israel in 1974.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
