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.
The Academic World and the Haredim: A Future for Yiddish
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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 future of the Yiddish language in the academic and Haredi (ultra-orthodox) worlds.
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.