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.
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Heather Valencia, Yiddish translator, describes hearing about Yiddish for the first time, learning of the Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, and learning the language.
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.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
