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.

Yiddish is the Salt in Your Food: The Peculiar Relationship Americans Have with Yiddish

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David Forman, grandson of Yiddish writer and educator Solomon Simon, describes his own relationship to Yiddish, and analyzes it against what he considers the denigration of Yiddish in American-English colloquialism.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Forman.

This excerpt is in English.

David Forman was born in 1960.