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 Variations of Yiddish in Ontario

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Shulamith (Shami) Kligman Zimmerman – Yiddish teacher and daughter of Yiddishist Joseph Kligman – talks about the types of Yiddish she heard in Windsor, Ontario and Toronto. She also talks about her beautiful her father's Yiddish writing was and French loans words in Yiddish.

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

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.