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.
Seeds in the Desert: Heather Valencia Reflects on Mendel Mann's Yiddish Writings
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Heather Valencia, Yiddish translator based in Scotland, reflects on the Yiddish stories of Mendel Mann, some of which she recently translated as the book Seeds in the Desert, published by the Yiddish Book Center's White Goat Press.
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.
