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.

The Role of Yiddish Today

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Cantor Moshe Kraus, Holocaust survivor and first chief cantor of the Israel Defense Forces expresses his doubts about the continued use of Yiddish in the modern world.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Kraus.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.