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.
A Small Revolution (with Bathing Suits)
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Shulamis Levin Friedman, z"l, Yiddish educator, remembers her mother - including how she started a "small revolution" at Yiddish summer camp Nay-velt (New World) with a pair of scissors.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Shulamis Levin Friedman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Shulamis Levin Friedman was born in Bronx, New York in 1928. Shulamis died in 2015.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
