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.
Age Divisions at Camp Boiberik
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Chana Schachner, educator, outlines the age divisions at Camp Boiberik, the Yiddish summer camp run by the Sholem Aleichem Folkshule Educational System.
yingste - "youngest"
mitele - "middle"
eltste - "oldest"
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.