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.
Growing Up in "Bainbridgivke," a Small Yiddish World on Bainbridge Avenue
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Rukhl (Sore-Rukhl) Schaechter—editor of the Forverts and daughter of Yiddish linguist Mordkhe Schaechter—describes what is was like to grow up on Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rukhl (Sore-Rukhl) Schaechter.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.