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.

Epiphany: Discovering Yiddish is Mine

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Elissa Kraemer, student in the 2010 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program, describes her epiphany discovering that Yiddish is hers.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elissa Kraemer.

This excerpt is in English.

Elissa Kraemer was born in Sarasota, Florida in 1989.

This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

exhibition practicum

1 min 35 sec

Experience at Internship

1 min 17 sec

Grandparents and Interest in Yiddish

1 min 32 sec

YBC Praise

1 min 32 sec

My Yiddish "Quest"

34 sec