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.

Litvak & Varshe: Code-Switching Between Yiddish Accents As A Child

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Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, describes the Yiddish-speaking home she grew up in, and her parents' disparate accents, both of which she picked up.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rivka Augenfeld.

This excerpt is in English.

Rivka Augenfeld was born in Graz, Austria in 1946.