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.

Why Did They Stop Teaching Yiddish? Practical Reasons

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Estela Aizenman Stern, Mexican school teacher and Yiddish enthusiast, describes how CIM-ORT, aka "Di Yidishe" evolves and thus must move to English and Hebrew being taught instead of Yiddish—Yiddish became optional and slowly lost its presence in the school.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Estela Aizenman Stern.

This excerpt is in English.

Estela Aizenman Stern was born in Mexico City, Mexico.