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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.
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David and Ben Burstin – sons of Bundist Sender Burstin – discuss what Yiddish means to them. They describe how Yiddish has influenced and contributed to their identities as Jewish men.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Burstin and Ben Burstin.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
David Burstin was born in 1937.
Ben Burstin was born in 1931.
