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.
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Daniel Averbuch, activist and early Yiddishist, discusses why he has decided to learn Yiddish and why he thinks that all Israeli children should study Yiddish in school, and states that "you need to understand the past in order to live the future."
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Daniel Averbuch.
This excerpt is in English.
Daniel Averbuch was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1985.
