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.
Places of Yiddish in the World Today
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Eli Batalion, co-creator of YidLife Crisis, discusses the places where one can find Yiddish in the world today. He considers communities who pass Yiddish down within a religious context, and the more recent trend of Yiddish as an academic pursuit.
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.