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.

Eli Batalion's Oral History

Eli Batalion was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 15, 2016 at the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

This interview was conducted in English.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Places of Yiddish in the World Today

5 min 28 sec

Places of Yiddish in the Jewish Organizational World

2 min

As Serious as Any of the Religious Texts: My Attitude Toward Yiddish Growing Up

1 min 19 sec

My Great-Grandmother Was the Leader of the Family

1 min 55 sec

The Yiddish Valedictorian

3 min 6 sec

Food of Another Era

4 min 9 sec

Hipster Yiddish: YidLife Crisis Co-Creator on Yiddish in the 21st Century

2 min 7 sec

The Importance of Names

2 min 58 sec

Yiddish, French, and English: The Place of Ashkenazi Jewish Culture in Quebec

4 min 18 sec

A Fabricated Political Polarity Around Yiddish

1 min 43 sec

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