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.

Zackary Sholem Berger's Oral History

Zackary Sholem Berger - doctor, Yiddish translator, activist, and blogger - 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.

Zackary Sholem Berger was born in Washington, D.C. in 1973.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Meeting Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter

2 min 29 sec

Itche Goldberg's Ideology

1 min 50 sec

Translating Dr. Seuss and other Children's Literature into Yiddish

3 min 2 sec

Yiddishism and Multifaceted Jewish Identity

4 min 15 sec

The Roles of Literature and Spoken Language in Transmission

2 min 15 sec

Rethinking the Idea of Yiddishland

3 min 14 sec

Without an Audience in Mind: Sholem Berger on Writing (Yiddish) Poetry

2 min 36 sec

Sholem Berger on the Importance of Being Open as a Yiddish(ist) Community

2 min 22 sec

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