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 Don't You Just Take Yiddish?": Yiddish as a Middle Eastern Language
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Yael Chaver, research fellow at UC Berkeley, talks about, after moving to the United States and beginning her MA/PhD in Hebrew Literature, she ended up studying Yiddish in Palestine instead.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yael Chaver.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
