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.

Speaking Yiddish with Our Children and Grandchildren

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Rose Blustein [Ajzenbud], librarian and daughter of Yiddish writer Moshe Ajzenbud, explains how she and her husband have spoken Yiddish with their children and now grandchildren. She explains why it was important to them, as a part of transmitting their sense of secular Jewishness.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rose Blustein [Ajzenbud].

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Rose Blustein [Ajzenbud] was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1951.