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.
On Not Teaching My Children Afrikaans
Watch now:
Adrienne Mayer, Jewish woman who grew up in South Africa and moved to Israel before settling in Framingham, MA, explains why she did not teach Afrikaans to her children, and describes its replacement in South Africa by English.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Adrienne Mayer.
This excerpt is in English.
Adrienne Mayer was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
