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.

Felker Yontif

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Instead of Color Wars, which many of the Jewish summer camps ended the session with, Boiberik ended with Felker Yontif. Felker Yontif embodied "the fulfillment of vision of the vision of Isaiah where all the countries live in peace [and] the lion lies down with the lamb."

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Chana Schachner.

This excerpt is in English.

Chana Schachner was born in Bronx, New York in 1930. Chana died in 2021.