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, z"l, died in 2013.
Video highlights from this oral history
"The Last Day of Joy": Chernowitz in 1945
1 minute 39 seconds
Eliezer Shteynbarg Was Our Peretz
1 minute 46 seconds
I Began Writing To Entertain the Children: A Yiddish Writer's Inspiration
1 minute 37 seconds
Bainbridge Avenue: A Micro-neighborhood of Yiddish Culture in the Bronx
1 minute 39 seconds
Isaac Nachman Steinberg and the Frayland Lige (Freeland League)
2 minutes 13 seconds
Yiddishism Is a Way of Life
1 minute 25 seconds
"It Gives Us a Reason, an Ideal": Yiddish in the Schaechter-Gottesman Family
2 minutes 9 seconds
I Read Every Holocaust Memoir I Find
3 minutes 56 secondsArtifacts related to this oral history
Mother
Works cited
Photo from Shari
Her signature
af der rozever gas
fun veg illustration
Himlen in November illustration from Sha
in droysn
inside cover with pub info
inside cover
layter shlitn
self-portrait
tunkle grin
zaytike batrakhtungen illustration
Mshalim book cover
Mshalim cat illustration
Mshalim bear and sheep illustration
Shari book cover
Shari Illustration p.108
The Jewish Book of Fables cover
Zumertog shvartse vorones music
Zumertog song
More information about this oral history
Themes:
- Yiddish speaker
- Eastern Europe
- Western Europe
- Soviet Union
- Holocaust
- World War II
- Immigration and migration
- United States
- Childhood
- Languages
- Singing
- Family traditions
- Antisemitism
- Urban
- Advice
- Family histories
- Jewish Identity
- Yiddish language
- Yiddish teaching
- Yiddish scene
- Yiddish revival and activism
- Music
- Literature
- Books
- Poetry
- Career and Professional Life
- Religion
- Cultural transmission
- Shabbos
- Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
- Bella Schaechter-Gottesman
- Vienna
- Czernowitz
- Eliezer Shteynbarg
- Bainbridge Avenue
- Bronx
- New York
- New York City
- Sholem Aleichem School
- Yitskhok Nakhmen Steinberg
- Yitskhok Nakhmen Shteynberg
- Frayland Lige
- Yidish Lige
- Yiddishism
- Yiddishist
Keywords:
Series:
Listen later:
For other download options:
About the Wexler Oral History Project
Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
Tell Us Your Story
Do you (or someone you know) have stories to share about the importance of Yiddish language and culture in your life?