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.
"I Could Curse in Yiddish for 10 Minutes Without Repeating Anything"
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Hy Eisman, American cartoonist who writes and draws the "Popeye" comic strip, explains the kinds of Yiddish words that his father taught him and how he used them to make his father's friends laugh.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hy Eisman.
This excerpt is in English.
