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.

Meylekh Viswanath's Oral History

Meylekh Viswanath, Yidish-Vokh 2013 participant, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 18, 2013 at Yidish-Vokh in Reisterstown, Maryland. This interview was conducted entirely in Yiddish.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Meylekh Viswanath was born in Palghat, India in 1954.

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Video highlights from this oral history

My Journey to Yiddish: How A Tamil Speaker Discovered Yiddish

5 min 11 sec

Names that Work in Both Languages: Naming Bicultural Tamil-Ashkenazi Children

2 min 18 sec

Speaking Yiddish and Tamil at Home

6 min 47 sec

An Eytse (A Piece of Advice): See The Humanity of Others

2 min 49 sec

I Wanted Them To Be Proud of Their Indian Heritage, too

2 min 17 sec

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