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 Peretz School of Windsor, Ontario

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Shulamith (Shami) Kligman Zimmerman – Yiddish teacher and daughter of Yiddishist Joseph Kligman – describes attending the Peretz School in her hometown of Windsor Ontario. She talks about the programs offered and what the schedule was like. She also describes learning Hebrew by learning Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Shulamith (Shami) Kligman Zimmerman.

This excerpt is in English.