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.

Thoughts On Learning Yiddish

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Tetyana Yakovleva, scholar from Eastern Ukraine with a PhD in Slavic-Jewish Literature, describes her experience learning Yiddish - the challenges in language learning, and how the experience has influenced her perspective.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Tetyana Yakovleva.

This excerpt is in English.

Tetyana Yakovleva was born in Kharkov, Ukraine in 1984.