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.

Like A Son: Mordkhe Schaechter’s Projects Live On

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Paul (Hershl) Glasser - Forverts columnist and former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center at YIVO - describes the work of his mentor, linguist Mordkhe Schaechter, including several collections of Yiddish vocabulary - and how he has continued the work since Schaechter's death.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul (Hershl) Glasser.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Paul (Hershl) Glasser was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957.