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.
The Language of Khurbn (Destruction)
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Zvi Jankelowitz, Director of Institutional Advancement at the Yiddish Book Center, describes his experiences with Yiddish in Israel and explains how the different meanings of the words used to refer to the Holocaust in Hebrew and Yiddish reflect the Israeli view of Yiddish as the language of destruction.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zvi Jankelowitz.
This excerpt is in English.
Zvi Jankelowitz was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1956.
