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.
My Relationship with My Zeyde (Grandfather), Yiddish Linguist Mordkhe Schaechter
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Naftali Ejdelman, talks about his childhood relationship with his grandfather, Mordkhe Schaechter, a famous Yiddish linguist.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Naftali Ejdelman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Naftali Ejdelman was born in New York, New York in 1985.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.