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.
Yidish-Lige: The League for Yiddish and Afn Shvel, A Yiddish Journal
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Sheva Zucker, Yiddishist and Yiddish teacher, describes her work with the Yiddish cultural organization Yidish-Lige (The League for Yiddish), and the founding of their magazine Afn Shvel, of which she is editor-in-chief.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sheva Zucker.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Sheva Zucker was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1951.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.