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.

Reading Avrom Sutzkever's Yiddish Poetry and My English Translation

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Heather Valencia, Yiddish translator, describes Sutzkever's style of poetry and does a reading of poetry in Yiddish and English.

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.