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.

Unknown Writers: Yiddish Writers in Palestine

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Yael Chaver, teacher of Yiddish language and literature at UC Berkeley, talks about the three Yiddish writers in Palestine that became the focus of her study.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yael Chaver.

This excerpt is in English.