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.

“I Don’t Think Any of Them Will Be A Yiddishist, but Who Knows?”: Yiddish Across Generations

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Rebecca Levine, Yiddish teacher and Yiddishist, relates a few stories about the Yiddish her children and grandchildren know.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rebecca Levine.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Rebecca Levine was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1932.