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.

"What News?": The Nerve-racking Beginning Mordkhe Schaechter's Advanced Yiddish Class

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Sore-Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Forverts and daughter of Yiddish linguist Mordkhe Schaechter, shares a memory of how her father, Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, led his Yiddish class for the Yiddish Teachers' Seminary.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rukhl (Sore-Rukhl) Schaechter.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

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This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Why "Yiddish Alone is Not Enough" for Sore-Rukhl Schaechter

2 min 58 sec

Rukhl Schaechter's Beginnings at the Forverts (Yiddish Daily Forward)

1 min 59 sec

Mordkhe Schaechter's Depressive Tendencies

2 min 46 sec

Daily Work at the Forverts (Yiddish Daily Forward) Newspaper

2 min 2 sec

The Forverts Goes Online: How A Yiddish Daily Newspaper Has Changed

6 min 14 sec

Growing Up in "Bainbridgivke," a Small Yiddish World on Bainbridge Avenue

2 min 2 sec

Mordkhe Schaechter as an Academic, Activist and a Man

3 min 23 sec

"It Wasn't Cool": The New York Yiddish Scene of Rukhl Schaechter's Youth

3 min 31 sec

The Beginnings of Yugntruf: Youth for Yiddish

1 min 58 sec

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