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.

"He was an activist teacher who fought for Yiddish"

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Ilene Gelbaum describes her teacher, Mordkhe Schaechter, as having had a large impact upon her life.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ilene Gelbaum.

This excerpt is in English.

Ilene Gelbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946.