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.
"We Should Have Been Speaking Yiddish" Y. Y. Segal's Daughter The on Trouble of Not Passing Down the Language
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Annette Zakuta, daughter of Yiddish writer Y. Y. Segal, explains how her Jewish identity was "wrapped up" in the Yiddish language. She further expresses feeling troubled by how her parents spoke Yiddish, but did not pass the language on to her.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Annette Zakuta.
This excerpt is in English.
Annette Zakuta was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1929.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
