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.
Without an Audience in Mind: Sholem Berger on Writing (Yiddish) Poetry
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Zackary Sholem Berger - doctor by day, Yiddish translator, blogger, and activist by night - describes how he has an audience in mind while writing prose but concentrates solely on playing with words when writing poetry.
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 Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
