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.

Karmela Belinki's Oral History

Karmela Belinki—international journalist, academic, writer, and translator—was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 16th, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland.

This interview was conducted in English.

Karmela Belinki was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1947.

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Video highlights from this oral history

“My Emotions are in Yiddish”: The Place of Yiddish in a Multilingual Jewish Life in Finland

3 min 29 sec

I Was a Wunderkind: Growing Up in a Multilingual Jewish Home in Post-WW2 Finland

2 min 50 sec

The Special Place of Yiddish in the Multilingual Belinki Family

4 min 5 sec

The Three Jewish Communities of Finland: Turku, Viipuri, and Helsinki

3 min 28 sec

Interviews I Conducted with Isaac Bashevis Singer

5 min 2 sec

Meeting Golda Meir

5 min 32 sec

A Roots Trip to the Baltics

8 min 13 sec

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