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.
Why Do We Need Yiddish Word-Level Search? Refoyl Finkel Explains
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Raphael (Refoyl) Finkel–professor of computer science and Yiddish speaker–explains why having word-level search for Yiddish would be a game-changer for researchers.
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.