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.
"What Kind of Person is a Mentsh?": Preserving the Yiddish Language
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Philip (Fishl) Kutner, founder of "Der Bay" a website for Yiddish networking information, explains why he thinks people should learn Yiddish today, and how its rich culture and unique terminology make Yiddish a language worth preserving.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Philip (Fishl) Kutner.
This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.
Philip (Fishl) Kutner was born in 1926.