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.

Sadie Espar's Oral History

Sadie Espar, z"l, librarian from Detroit, Michigan, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 4, 2018, in Palo Alto, California.

This interview was conducted in English.

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Video highlights from this oral history

My Father Taught Me Yiddish Letters on a Foggy Window

55 sec

My Impromptu Private Tour of the Yiddish Book Center

2 min 4 sec

Shabes Mornings Reading the Bintl Brief with My Mother

2 min 43 sec

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