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.
Done, Yiddish: Leaving Behind a Language
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Paul (Pinny) Switzer, native Yiddish speaker and professor emeritus of statistics at Stanford University, recalls his gradual distancing from the Yiddish language, as he matured in an English-speaking community.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul (Pinny) Switzer.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Paul (Pinny) Switzer was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1939.