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.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.