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.

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Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Chair of the Polish Association for Yiddish Studies, explains how many factions were able to unite based on their shared distaste for Yiddish media.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov.

This excerpt is in English.

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This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

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“If You Want to Really Appreciate Him, Teach Yourself Yiddish”: Itzik Manger & How I Started with Yiddish

2 min 48 sec

"Like Studies in the Kheyder (Heder)”: Reading and Translating In My Beginning Yiddish Class

1 min 58 sec

Researching the Haynt Daily Yiddish Newspaper

3 min 37 sec

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