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.

Elissa Kraemer's Oral History

Elissa Kraemer, student in the 2010 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program, was interviewed by Hadas Margulies on July 6, 2010 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Elissa Kraemer was born in Sarasota, Florida in 1989.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Epiphany: Discovering Yiddish is Mine

1 min 49 sec

exhibition practicum

1 min 35 sec

Experience at Internship

1 min 17 sec

Grandparents and Interest in Yiddish

1 min 32 sec

YBC Praise

1 min 32 sec

My Yiddish "Quest"

34 sec

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