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.
Mordkhe Schaechter's Depressive Tendencies
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Sore-Rukhl Schaechter, editor at the Forverts Yiddish newspaper, reflects on the way her father, well-known linguist and Yiddish teacher Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, struggled with depression.
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.