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.
Jews Should Know Yiddish: How and Why I Started Learning Yiddish
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Norbert N Kruk, sound technician and member of the Helsinki Jewish choir, shares how he got into learning Yiddish, through music and the joke section of his uncle's Yiddish newspaper, and why he chose to continue with Yiddish.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Norbert Kruk.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Norbert Kruk was born in Turku, Finland in 1946.
