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.

Frederick Schwartzman's Oral History

Frederick Schwartzman, native Yiddish speaker raising his children trilingual and nephew of Yiddish writer B. Demblin, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 28, 2013 in New York City, NY.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish and English.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Brisk (Brest-Litovsk) Was an Important (Jewish) City

3 min 33 sec

"It Was a Real School": The Sholem Aleichem School System

1 min 46 sec

Our Children Spoke Japanese with Their Mother and Yiddish with Their Father

1 min 50 sec

Founding Pripetshik, a Play Group for Yiddish-Speaking Children on Park Ave.

2 min 57 sec

Speaking Yiddish To Prevent It from Becoming Latin

3 min 13 sec

"Open Mouth and Speak!": Speaking Yiddish by Choice

1 min 18 sec

My Uncle, B. Demblin, Was an Author and Intellectual

2 min 11 sec

A Story of Double Cousins

2 min 3 sec

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