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.
Blintzes, Hava Nagilah, And Seders: Passing Jewishness Down The Generations
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Gerald Palevsky, civil and public health engineer by profession, reflects on how he and his wife have tried to pass on Yiddish and Judaism to their children, and the unique difficulties of transmitting the Yiddish language.
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.