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.

Today, There is an Extraordinary Interest in Yiddish: How Chava Turniansky Feels About Yiddish in Israel

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Chava Turniansky, professor emeritus of Yiddish literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, discusses experiencing and taking part in the modern revival of Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Chava Turniansky.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Chava Turniansky was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1937.