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.
Losing Religious Faith—and Encountering Shakespeare
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Vivi Lachs, social and cultural historian, performer, and Yiddishist, describes her sudden experience of losing belief in G-d, coinciding with studying Shakespeare and joining a theater troupe. She goes on to explain how difficult this experience was, and the ways a knowledge of secular Jewish history might have helped her get through it at the time.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Vivi Lachs.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
