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.
"In Germany After the War, There Was No Way to Get Jewish Type": How We Made a Yiddish Newspaper in A DP Camp
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Mordechai Dunetz - teacher, Yiddish writer, and activist for Yiddish language in Israel - explains how they produced the zionist Yiddish newspaper Undzer Hofenung (Our Hope) in the Eschwege displaced persons' camp after World War Two. The paper had to be printed in transliteration with the Latin letters since no Hebrew or Yiddish type was available.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mordechai Dunetz.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
