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.

Zohar Weiman-Kelman's Oral History

Zohar Weiman-Kelman, a rising scholar, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 14, 2014 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

This interview was conducted in English.

Zohar Weiman-Kelman was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1982.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Inside or Outside: Closed Circles in the Yiddish World

2 min 30 sec

Who is Irena Klepfisz?: Mentor, Lesbian Yiddish Poetess

2 min 19 sec

Yiddish Rebelliousness, Pleasure, Corporeality of the Past

2 min 22 sec

"Look Through Yiddish at the World": Advice for Those Interested in Yiddish

1 min 13 sec

Finding Yiddish through Women Writers

3 min 48 sec

Speaking Directly to the Bubbies: Transmission Between Jewish Lesbian Writers and Yiddish Poetesses

2 min 32 sec

"Making Babies in Other Ways": Beyond Heteronormativity, Essentialism, Survival in Transmission

3 min

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