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.
"Try A Bit at A Time": Advice for Starting Something Big, Such As Learning Yiddish
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Raphael (Refoyl) Finkel–professor of computer science and Yiddish speaker–offers advice to anyone who wants to start a big project such as learning a language.
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.