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.
Refoyl Finkel on Yiddish Word Lists and Yiddish Computer Programs He's Written
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Raphael (Refoyl) Finkel–professor of computer science and Yiddish speaker–talks about the computer programs he has created for Yiddish speakers and how he got the idea to make them.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Raphael (Refoyl) Finkel.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Raphael (Refoyl) Finkel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1951.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.