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.
Birobidzhan: A Bizarre Meshing of Worlds
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Debra Caplan, Ph.D. candidate in Yiddish, provides a vivid description of Birobidzhan, Russia, a region established by the Soviet Government in 1934 as the Jewish Autonomous Region, where she went for a Yiddish language intensive.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Debra Caplan.
This excerpt is in English.
Debra Caplan was born in North Wales, Pennsylvania in 1985.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
