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.
"Women Were the Transmitters of this Language": Yiddish transmission in the 18th Century
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Sue Ehrlich—New York native, Yiddish activist, and artist—describes some of her research about the way Yiddish was passed down by women, before men adopted it as a literary language in the mid-19th century.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sue Ehrlich.
This excerpt is in English.
Sue Ehrlich was born in New York, New York in 1928.
