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.
A Yiddishist From Birth
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Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, describes the home he grew up in: how Yiddish was the language of the house, and his first language, and how his cousins taught him English.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gerald Palevsky.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Gerald Palevsky was born in Bronx, New York in 1926.