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.
Street Yiddish
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Yale Strom, musical performer, artist, and ethnographic collector of Yiddish music, discusses how he learned and developed a "gas" or street Yiddish.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yale (Yitskhok) Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
