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.
She Read the Yiddish Newspaper from Birobidzhan: My Mother's Relationship to Yiddish
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Hanni Dorn, granddaughter of Mark Selchen, editor of Yiddish newspaper in Winnipeg, describes her mother's connection to Yiddish, and discusses her mother's creation of an educational exchange program between City College and teachers in Birobidzhan.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hanni Dorn.
This excerpt is in English.
Hanni Dorn was born in New York, New York in 1961.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
