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.
A Present From Abraham Sutzkever
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Valery Dymshits, researcher and lecturer at the at the Interdepartmental Center "Petersburg Judaica" at the European University at St. Petersburg speaks about a brief encounter with writer and poet Abraham Sutzkever.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Valery Dymshits.
This excerpt is in Russian.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.