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.
My Great Grandmother, Lifshe Schaechter-Vidman
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Esther Gottesman, granddaughter of Yiddish poet Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and daughter of Itzik Gottesman, reflects on the influence of her great-grandmother in the culture of her family.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Esther Gottesman.
This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.