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 Fabricated Political Polarity Around Yiddish
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Eli Batalion, co-creator of YidLife Crisis, reflects on the political associations and assumptions of Yiddish he's encountered in his travels. He considers the legacy of Leftist political leanings within the Yiddish language, as in polarity to the Right-leaning politics of Hebrew, and Zionism. He thinks through these implications, and considers the possibility that these associations, this polarity, may be more constructed than inherent.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eli Batalion.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
