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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.

Heather Valencia Reflects on Approaches to Yiddish Translation

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Heather Valencia, Yiddish translator, describes the differences of translating various Yiddish writers and the different ways of approaching translation from Yiddish.

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.