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.
We're Still Alive and Kicking
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Chana Schachner - educator and former Camp Boiberik camper - describes the differences between the use of Yiddish today and in the past, and asserts that it certainly not dead.
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.
