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.

Jonathan (Itsik) Sunshine's Oral History

Jonathan (Itsik) Sunshine, University Heights native and head of the greater Washington, D.C. Yiddish club, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 15, 2014 at Yidish-Vokh in Reisterstown, Maryland.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Jonathan (Itsik) Sunshine was born in New Jersey in 1944.

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Video highlights from this oral history

"It Was the Language of My Grandparents": Why Yiddish was and is Important to Me

2 min 2 sec

Memories of the Workmen's Circle Third Passover Seder

4 min 43 sec

Searching for a Non-Religious Jewish Identity: How I Got Back into Yiddish

2 min 21 sec

What is Yidish-Vokh (Yiddish Week)?

4 min 23 sec

Yiddish in Washington D.C.

4 min 45 sec

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