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.

"Every Year, Languages Die...Jews Are Determined Not to Let Yiddish Die!"

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Seweryn Aszkenazy, a developer and child Holocaust survivor, talks about the interconnectedness of Polish culture and Yiddish culture, especially within Yiddish literature in terms of how very much Polish culture is indebted to it.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Seweryn Aszkenazy.

This excerpt is in English.

Seweryn Aszkenazy was born in Tarnopol, Poland in 1936.