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.

Creating a Birobidzhaner Yiddish Textbook

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Elena Sarashevskaya, editor of the Birobidzhaner Shtern, talks about the process of making a Yiddish textbook by and for the people of Birobidzhan.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elena Sarashevskaya.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Elena Sarashevskaya was born in Khingansk, Jewish Autonomous Region, Russia.