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.
Malka Heifetz Tussman, Yiddish Poet, My Mentor and Friend
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Kathryn Hellerstein, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at University of Pennsylvania, discusses her relationship with the older Yiddish poet Malka Heifetz Tussman, who served as tutor and mentor to Hellerstein while she was learning Yiddish.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Kathryn Hellerstein.
This excerpt is in English.
Kathryn Hellerstein was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
