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.

Personal Connection to Yiddish

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Hanni Dorn, granddaughter of Mark Selchen, editor of Yiddish newspaper in Winnipeg, discusses her personal relationship with Yiddish and the nostalgia and loss that she feels for the language and culture.

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.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Mark Selchen, My Grandfather, was Editor of Dos Yidishe Vort Yiddish Newspaper in Winnipeg

2 min 31 sec

She Read the Yiddish Newspaper from Birobidzhan: My Mother's Relationship to Yiddish

3 min 9 sec

Cultural Transmission Through Food and Cooking

2 min 13 sec

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