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 Jewish Organizational World
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Eli Batalion, co-creator of YidLife Crisis, reflects on the place of Yiddish in Jewish organizations today. He explains what he calls the "political tinge" of Yiddish, which is a primary reason for Jewish organizations rejecting Yiddishism and Yiddish language into their cultural politics.
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.