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.
Yiddish as a Priority for the Survival of Yiddishkayt and Jewish Culture
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Becky Rubinstein—Mexican Jewish writer and niece of founder of Mexican-Yiddish newspaper "Di Shtime"—undescores the importance of the resurgence of Yiddish for the survival of Jewish culture, through language.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Becky Rubinstein Wolochviansky.
This excerpt is in Spanish.
Becky Rubinstein Wolochviansky was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1948.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.