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.

Diego Rotman's Oral History

Diego Rotman - scholar and artist with a special interest in the Yiddish theater duo Dzigan and Schumacher - was interview by Christa Whitney on November 5, 2016, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

This interview was conducted in Spanish.

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Video highlights from this oral history

"Learning Yiddish Would Be a Waste of Time": Reactions to an Early Interest in Grandparents' Culture

1 min 2 sec

"I Wanted to Understand Them": An Early Interest in Yiddish

1 min 26 sec

Dzigan and Schumacher's Fight Against Yiddish Prohibition in Israel

2 min 6 sec

Deciding to Study Dzigan and Schumacher

1 min 34 sec

Dzigan and Schumacher's Theater Resonates in Israel

1 min 19 sec

"There are Ways": Complicated Status of Yiddish in Israel

2 min 44 sec

Jewish Life Growing Up in Buenos Aires

1 min 59 sec

Introduction to the Yiddish Duo Dzigan and Schumacher

2 min 47 sec

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