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.
Cultural Literacy: Yiddish as a Key to Understanding Our World
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Sheva Zucker, Yiddishist and Yiddish teacher, reflects on what we can learn from studying the Yiddish language.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sheva Zucker.
This excerpt is in English and 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.
