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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.

Translating Yiddish South African Poetry

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Hazel Frankel, writer, translator, artist and researcher in Yiddish at the University of Witwatersrand, explains the importance of translation South African Yiddish poetry, to recuperate a lost community.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Hazel Frankel.

This excerpt is in English.

Hazel Frankel was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1949.