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.

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman's Oral History

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, z"l, Yiddish poet and educator, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 26, 2012 at Yidish-Vokh in Maryland. This interview is entirely in Yiddish.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. Beyle died in 2013.

Video highlights from this oral history

"The Last Day of Joy": Chernowitz in 1945

1 min 39 sec

Eliezer Shteynbarg Was Our Peretz

1 min 46 sec

I Began Writing To Entertain the Children: A Yiddish Writer's Inspiration

1 min 37 sec

Bainbridge Avenue: A Micro-neighborhood of Yiddish Culture in the Bronx

1 min 39 sec

Isaac Nachman Steinberg and the Frayland Lige (Freeland League)

2 min 13 sec

Yiddishism Is a Way of Life

1 min 25 sec

"It Gives Us a Reason, an Ideal": Yiddish in the Schaechter-Gottesman Family

2 min 9 sec

I Read Every Holocaust Memoir I Find

3 min 56 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

layter shlitn

self-portrait

tunkle grin

zaytike batrakhtungen illustration

Mshalim book cover

Mshalim cat illustration

Mother

Mshalim bear and sheep illustration

Works cited

Shari book cover

Photo from Shari

Shari Illustration p.108

Her signature

The Jewish Book of Fables cover

af der rozever gas

Zumertog shvartse vorones music

fun veg illustration

Zumertog song

Himlen in November illustration from Sha

in droysn

inside cover with pub info

inside cover

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