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.
Approaching Yiddish Song and Story as an Historian
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Vivi Lachs, social and cultural historian, performer, and Yiddishist, discusses how she approaches Yiddish through her particular perspective as a historian, and how she has observed others (linguists, sociologists) doing the same.
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.