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.

Connecting with Avrom Sutzkever

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Heather Valencia, Yiddish translator, describes exchanging letter and visiting Avrom Sutzkever a Yiddish poet whose work she translates in Tel Aviv.

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.