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.
Mordkhe Schaechter as a Teacher
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Ken (Binyomen) Moss—director of Jewish Studies Program and Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University—remembers the teaching style of Mordkhe Schaechter, with whom he studied Yiddish in the YIVO Summer Program.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ken (Binyomen) Moss.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Ken (Binyomen) Moss was born in New Jersey in 1974.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.