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.
"Like Studies in the Kheyder (Heder)”: Reading and Translating In My Beginning Yiddish Class
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Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Chair of the Polish Association for Yiddish Studies, recounts her earliest experiences in Yiddish class in Poland.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.