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.

Renate Fairweather's Oral History

Renate Fairweather, a Yiddish teacher based in Oklahoma City, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 11, 2013 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

This interview was conducted in English and Yiddish.

Renate Fairweather was born in Bonn, Germany in 1945.