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.

Mystery or Hilarity: Attitudes toward Yiddish in Israel versus the United States

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Rachel Rojanski, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, discusses the difference in cultural attitudes to Yiddish between Israel and the United States.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rachel Rojanski.

This excerpt is in English.

Rachel Rojanski was born in Israel.