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.
Singularity of Yiddish culture
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Chana Schachner discusses how a secular culture, Yiddish, is unique to the Jewish religion among other religions commonly practiced in the United States.
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.
