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.
The "Shund" (Lowbrow) Writings of David Moyshe Hermalin
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Israeli Yiddish teacher Hanna Palmon discusses the shund, the Yiddish word for lowbrow novels, by her father's cousin, David Moyshe Hermalin. Hermalin's was concerned with moralistic lessons in his writing and frequently wrote about the problems faced by Jewish immigrants in America.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hanna Palmon.
This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.
Hanna Palmon was born in Haifa, Israel in 1959.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
