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.