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 Daily Paradise of Yiddish
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Israeli Yiddish teacher, Hanna Palmon, discusses the sense of 'daily paradise' that her intellectual and emotional engagement with Yiddish creates for her. In an eloquent description, sprinkled with Yiddish words, she recounts how the richness of Yiddish literature and poetry pulls her away from the mundane, daily problems that we all experience.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hanna Palmon.
This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.
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.
