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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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Shulamis Levin Friedman, z"l, Yiddish educator, reflects on the state of the Yiddish language today.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Shulamis Levin Friedman.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Shulamis Levin Friedman was born in Bronx, New York in 1928. Shulamis died in 2015.