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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.

Jews in the United Kingdom

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Heather Valencia, Yiddish translator, describes first learning of Jews in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Glasgow, Scotland.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Heather Valencia.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Heather Valencia was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1942.