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.

Judith Elbaum Schumer's Oral History

Judith Elbaum Schumer - teacher and daughter of Moshe Elbaum, editor of the Yiddish Forverts - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 3, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Judith Elbaum Schumer was born in Shanghai, China in 1945.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Do Not Tell Anybody that I Was Born in China

1 min 56 sec

An Irreplaceable Yiddish Experience

2 min 3 sec

You Speak Your Mother Tongue at Home

2 min 45 sec

My Father Got a Rare Interview with Anthony Eden on the Train

2 min 23 sec

A Family's Journey to America

10 min 39 sec

Escaping Lithuania With The Help of Chiune Sugihara

4 min 23 sec

Moshe Elbaum's Satirical Play

1 min 50 sec

He Was a Deadline Writer

1 min 15 sec

I Didn't Understand that my Home Was Unique

2 min 48 sec

He Loved Being a Teacher

1 min 59 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Reno Yiddish Clubs

Robert Kennedy Visits Forverts

Photo of her father

Esther's Journey memoir cover

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