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.
Thinking of Yiddish While Teaching in Venezuela
Watch now:
Micha Brym, engineer and Yiddish enthusiast who was born in Russia and grew up in France, considers what Yiddish means to him today - for its rich culture and folklore. He remembers comparing Yiddish to an indigenous language spoken by the tribe he lived with, as something rich with a small but self-sustaining culture.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Micha Brym.
This excerpt is in English.
Micha Brym was born in 1942.
