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.

Shulamith (Shami) Kligman Zimmerman's Oral History

Shulamith (Shami) Kligman Zimmerman, Yiddish teacher and daughter of Yiddishist Joseph Kligman, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on May 10th, 2016, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This interview was conducted in English.

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Video highlights from this oral history

My Father, Yiddish writer and Activist, Joseph Kligman

2 min 16 sec

The Peretz School of Windsor, Ontario

3 min 34 sec

The Variations of Yiddish in Ontario

3 min 15 sec

Becoming a Yiddish Teacher

2 min 26 sec

Yiddish With My Grandkids

1 min 8 sec

My Father, The Rabbi, and Yiddish

1 min 11 sec

People Would Send My Father Yiddish Books to Review or Promote

2 min 8 sec

Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" in Published Yiddish

52 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Joseph Kligman's Yiddish Typewriter

Joseph Kligman's Yiddish Typewriter Close Up

Joseph Kligman's Yiddish Typewriter Close Up on Letters

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