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 Personal Journey with Yiddish: Starting to Translate Poetry

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Hazel Frankel, writer, translator, artist and researcher in Yiddish at the University of Witwatersrand, describes her process of translation.

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.