"I Have to Tell You, Your Yiddish is Very Strange": Speaking Yiddish with Hasidim

Miriam Udel, assistant professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies at Emory University, shares her experiences trying to speak to her "fossilized, caught-in-amber YIVO (standardized, academic) Yiddish" with native Yiddish speakers in Brooklyn and the Borscht Belt.

To see more of Miriam Udel’s interview, and to learn more about the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/oral-history/miriam-udel

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