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.

My Journey to Yiddish: How A Tamil Speaker Discovered Yiddish

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Meylekh Viswanath, a Yidish-Vokh 2013 participant, describes how he came to study the Yiddish language.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Meylekh Viswanath.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Meylekh Viswanath was born in Palghat, India in 1954.

Other video highlights from this oral history

An Eytse (A Piece of Advice): See The Humanity of Others

2 min 49 sec

I Wanted Them To Be Proud of Their Indian Heritage, too

2 min 17 sec

Names that Work in Both Languages: Naming Bicultural Tamil-Ashkenazi Children

2 min 18 sec

Speaking Yiddish and Tamil at Home

6 min 47 sec

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