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 at Home, English in Public
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Hy Eisman, American cartoonist who writes and draws the "Popeye" comic strip, recalls his mother's determination to learn and speak English in public even though they spoke Yiddish at home.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hy Eisman.
This excerpt is in English.
