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.

Gabriel Weinreich's Oral History

Gabriel Weinreich, professor emeritus of physics, Episcopal priest, and son of Yiddishist Max Weinreich, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 27, 2013 in Chelsea, Michigan.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish and English.

Gabriel Weinreich was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1928.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Vilna in the 1930s: We Lived in Yiddish

2 min 35 sec

Walking through Vilna in 1996

1 min 52 sec

Gabriel Weinreich Remembers His Grandparents' Farm in Niemez

4 min 30 sec

Visiting Max Weinreich in the YIVO Building in Vilna

1 min 25 sec

The Weinreich's Attitude Toward Judaism and Religious Jews

5 min 44 sec

How Would His Parents Would Have Reacted to His Conversion?: Gabriel Weinreich Theorizes

8 min 16 sec

Max Weinreich and Uriel Weinreich: Two Equal Colleagues

2 min 27 sec

Speaking Yiddish Is Like Being Part of an Extinct Species

5 min 35 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Kitchen

Portrait

Vertical portrait

Portraits on the wall

Another set of portraits on the wall

University of Michigan VIP orateur

Portraits in matching frames

Old family picture

Living room with pictures on the wall

Library

Library and reading corner

Wall of pictures

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