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.
The Forverts Goes Online: How A Yiddish Daily Newspaper Has Changed
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Sore-Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Forverts and daughter of Yiddish linguist Mordkhe Schaechter, explains the new directions the Forverts (Yiddish Daily Forward) newspaper has taken to reach new audiences with the help of web-based technology and bridge-building initiatives with the Hasidic world.
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.