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.
Inspired By a Poem: Shachar Pinsker's Grandmother Visits Tel Aviv
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Shachar Pinsker, literary scholar and cultural historian, tells the story of his grandmother reading about Tel Aviv in a poem and convincing her father to let her go.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Shachar Pinsker.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
