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.
When I Read Irena Klepfisz
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Hinde Ena Burstin, Yiddish poet and scholar, describes how it felt to read Irena Klepfisz's work for the first time in the lesbian anthology "Nice Jewish Girls". She says it was so important to her and showed that she wasn't the only Yiddish-speaking Jewish lesbian.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hinde Ena Burstin.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
