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 New Look at my Home Town, Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
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Ber Kotlerman, native Yiddish speaker from Birobidzhan and professor of Yiddish language and literature at Bar-Ilan University, speaks about the importance of creating a Yiddish language summer program in his hometown, and a special encounter with a native Yiddish speaker in the Birobidzhan area.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ber Kotlerman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Ber Kotlerman was born in Irkustk, Siberia, Russia in 1971.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
