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.

Yiddishism and Multifaceted Jewish Identity

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Zackary Sholem Berger - doctor by day, Yiddish translator, blogger, and activist by night - offers his own definition of Yiddishism and reflects on the role of Yiddishism in his broader sense of Jewishness.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zackary Sholem Berger.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Zackary Sholem Berger was born in Washington, D.C. in 1973.

This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Meeting Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter

2 min 29 sec

Itche Goldberg's Ideology

1 min 50 sec

Translating Dr. Seuss and other Children's Literature into Yiddish

3 min 2 sec

The Roles of Literature and Spoken Language in Transmission

2 min 15 sec

Rethinking the Idea of Yiddishland

3 min 14 sec

Without an Audience in Mind: Sholem Berger on Writing (Yiddish) Poetry

2 min 36 sec

Sholem Berger on the Importance of Being Open as a Yiddish(ist) Community

2 min 22 sec

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