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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Renate Fairweather, Yiddish teacher based in Oklahoma City, recounts how after being exposed to Yiddish earlier in her life, she finally came to study the language when she moved to Oklahoma.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Renate Fairweather.

This excerpt is in English and German and Yiddish.

Renate Fairweather was born in Bonn, Germany in 1945.

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