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.
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Itay Zutra, the I. L. Peretz Folk School Yiddish Teaching Fellow at the University of Manitoba, recounts his experiences at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute and the liberation he felt upon discovering a vibrant, lively and "cool" community of Yiddishists.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Itay Zutra.
This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.
Itay Zutra was born in Israel in 1974.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
