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.

For Me It Felt Natural: A Yiddish Upbringing

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Naftali Ejdelman, founder of Yiddish Farm and grandson of Mordkhe Schaechter, talks about the role of language (specifically Yiddish) in his upbringing.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Naftali Ejdelman.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Naftali Ejdelman was born in New York, New York in 1985.