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.

A Window to a World: Thoughts on Why Young People Come to Yiddish

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Vele Zabludovsky, z"l, founding member and long-time director of "La Naye" Jewish day school in Mexico City, reflects on what is bringing young people to Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Vele Zabludovsky.

This excerpt is in Spanish.

Vele Zabludovsky was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1923. Vele died in 2016.