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.
In The Middle of 2nd Grade, They Changed the Hebrew Pronunciation from Ashkenazi to Sephardic
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Sheva Zucker, Yiddishist and Yiddish teacher, remembers when the Hebrew pronunciation changed from Ashkenazi to Sephardi in the middle of the school year.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sheva Zucker.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Sheva Zucker was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1951.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
