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.

"Right-On-The-Nose Kind of Language": Yiddish Being Used in Major English Newspapers

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Rena Trefman Cobrinik, writer and educator, explains how for her, Yiddish means passion. She explains how the experience of rifling through the New York Times and finding dozens of Yiddish words in its articles proves to her that the language is still alive and necessary.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rena Trefman Cobrinik.

This excerpt is in English.

Rena Trefman Cobrinik was born in Bronx, New York in 1933.