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.
"It Was Another World": My Mother's Love of Yiddish--and My Sense of Strangeness
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Paul Mintus, documentary filmmaker on Native American reservations remembers how his mother loved Yiddish and was eager to strike up conversations with other Yiddish speakers wherever she was, even on the subway. He explains that while his mother sent him to a Yiddish language school, he didn't have the same sense of closeness as his mother.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul Mintus.
This excerpt is in English.
Paul Mintus was born in 1943. Paul died in 2020.
