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.
Yinglish in Menasha Skulnik's "Double Trouble"
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George Jochnowitz, professor emeritus of linguistics at the College of Staten Island, sings an excerpt of "Double Trouble," a song by Menasha Skulnik that George fondly remembers from his childhood trips to the Yiddish theaters of Second Avenue.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with George Jochnowitz.
This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.
George Jochnowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1937.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
