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.

Sheva Zucker's Oral History

Sheva Zucker, Yiddishist and Yiddish teacher, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 17, 2013 at Yidish-Vokh in Reisterstown, Maryland. The interview was conducted entirely in Yiddish.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Sheva Zucker was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1951.

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Video highlights from this oral history

"Holocaust was Not Taught...Baloney!": History at the Winnepeg Peretz Day School

2 min 52 sec

Back When A Yiddish Poet was Considered a Celebrity

1 min 56 sec

He Lived By His Own Principles: Sheva Zucker Reflects on Her Father

1 min 56 sec

"Lererin Esther": Sheva Zucker Remembers Her Favorite Yiddish Teacher from Winnipeg's Peretz School

1 min 57 sec

"The Fall-Back Plan": The Choice Was Between Being A Yiddish Teacher Or A Dancer

4 min 10 sec

Yidish-Lige: The League for Yiddish and Afn Shvel, A Yiddish Journal

3 min 21 sec

Cultural Literacy: Yiddish as a Key to Understanding Our World

3 min 5 sec

Yiddish Doesn't Need Saving

3 min 3 sec

In The Middle of 2nd Grade, They Changed the Hebrew Pronunciation from Ashkenazi to Sephardic

1 min 45 sec

Penmanship and Grammar in the Winnepeg Peretz Yiddish Day School

1 min 37 sec

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