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 Yiddish World of Bainbridge Avenue and the Schaechter Household
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Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Yiddish poet and daughter of linguist Mordkhe Schaechter, describes her childhood home and family life in the Bronx, where three Yiddish-speaking families lived on the same street: Bainbridge Ave. She reflects, too, on the attitude toward religious observance and tradition in her home.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath was born in Bronx, New York in 1958.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
