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.
Experiences as a Jewish Student at a Non-Jewish, Afrikaans School
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Adrienne Mayer, Jewish woman who grew up in South Africa and moved to Israel before settling in Framingham, MA, discusses her experiences of exclusion and difference as a Jewish student in a non-Jewish, Afrikaans school.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Adrienne Mayer.
This excerpt is in English.
Adrienne Mayer was born in Cape Town, South Africa.