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.
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath's Oral History
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Yiddish poet and daughter of linguist Mordkhe Schaechter, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 16, 2013 at Yidish-Vokh in Reisterstown, Maryland. The interview was conducted entirely in Yiddish.
This interview was conducted in Yiddish.
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath was born in Bronx, New York in 1958.