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 Yiddish Valedictorian

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Eli Batalion, co-creator of YidLife Crisis, explains what it meant to be the Yiddish valedictorian at his Jewish high school in Montreal.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eli Batalion.

This excerpt is in English.