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.

What Yiddish Means to Me

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Sidney Zoltak, who survived the Holocaust as a child, explains why Yiddish is important to him.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sidney Zoltak.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.