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.

We Can't Use It as a Secret Language-Yiddish with the Kid and the Dog

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Elizabeth Schwartz and Yale Strom, musical performers, talk about speaking Yiddish with their daughter and their dog.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yale (Yitskhok) Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz.

This excerpt is in English.