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.

Hazel Frankel's Oral History

Hazel Frankel, writer, translator, artist and researcher in Yiddish at the University of Witwatersrand, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 19, 2016 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in San Diego, California.

This interview was conducted in English.

Hazel Frankel was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1949.