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.

People Would Send My Father Yiddish Books to Review or Promote

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Shulamith (Shami) Kligman Zimmerman – Yiddish teacher and daughter of Yiddishist Joseph Kligman – goes through some Yiddish books in her possession, explaining why people would send her father their books.

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

This excerpt is in English.