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.
"Open Mouth and Speak!": Speaking Yiddish by Choice
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Frederick Schwartzman explains how he grew up speaking Yiddish out of necessity, in order to speak to his parents, but how as he raised his own family, he made a choice to continue speaking Yiddish.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Frederick Schwartzman.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.