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.
What Yiddish and Cherokee Have in Common: Reflecting on Endangered Languages
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Mark Wolraich, pediatrician, speaks to the importance of the written alphabet to preserving languages in general, and discusses the specific examples of Yiddish and the Cherokee language.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mark Wolraich.
This excerpt is in English.
Mark Wolraich was born in Bronx, New York in 1945.
