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.

Marilyn Cassotta's Oral History

Marilyn Cassotta, childhood Yiddish speaker, was interviewed by Mark Gerstein on December 7, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Marilyn Cassotta was born in Bronx, New York in 1933.

Video highlights from this oral history

The Yiddish Language Contains Everything Good About Being Jewish

1 min 8 sec

Fresh Gefilte Fish: Secular Observance of Jewish Traditions

1 min 13 sec

Falling in Love with Yiddish through Literature

1 min 11 sec

Yiddish is Luscious, Generous: Advice for A Yiddish Language Student

1 min 19 sec

Yiddish Curses

47 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Yiddish Hagada page3

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Yiddish Hagada page19-20

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Yiddish hagada back cover

Yiddish Hagada inside cover

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Yiddish Hagada p8

Yiddish Hagada p11

Yiddish Hagada front cover

Yiddish Hagadah page1

Yiddish Hagada page2