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.

Jacob Schlitt's Oral History

Jacob Schlitt, New York City-born native Yiddish speaker and social justice activist, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 12, 2010 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Jacob Schlitt was born in Bronx, New York in 1927. Jacob died in 2018.