8: Excerpt, “Finding Yiddish through Women Writers,” Wexler Oral History Project interview with Zohar Weiman-Kelman, 2014.
In this oral history interview excerpt, Zohar Weiman-Kelman, a scholar of Jewish literature and queer theory, explains how they first came to study Yiddish through reading Glückel’s memoirs.
Suggested Activity: Watch the excerpt with your students. Ask students to think about why Zohar Weiman-Kelman may have been motivated to study Yiddish after reading Glückel’s memoir. Does reading Glückel’s memoir make your students want to learn more? What would they want to read or study next (Jewish history? Writing by women? Yiddish?) Ask them to think of a time when they read or learned about something that left them hungry to learn more.
Source: Zohar Weiman-Kelman, interview by Christa Whitney (Wexler Oral History Project, December 14, 2014), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-6kInp0kRY. For the complete interview with Weiman-Kelman: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/w....