Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

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Title:
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Description:
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. To learn more about the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, visit: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story To cite this interview: Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath Oral History Interview, interviewed by Christa Whitney, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, Reisterstown, Maryland, August 16, 2013. Video recording, https://archive.org/details/GitlSchaechter-viswanath16aug2013YiddishBookCenter ([date accessed])
Creator:
Yiddish Book Center (Chad)
Date:
August 16, 2013
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
Yiddish Book Center
Collection (local):
Oral Histories
Subjects:
Yiddish Book Center
National Yiddish Book Center
Wexler Oral History Project
Nybc
Ybc
Yiddish
Jewish culture
Advice
Family history
Stories about ancestors
Childhood
Yiddish language
Jewish Identity
Yiddish teaching
Yiddish revival and activism
Yiddish scene
Yiddish speaker
Literature
Books
Newspapers
Poetry
Career and Professional Life
Scholarship
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Holocaust
Jewish education
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Secularism
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Family traditions
Jewish holidays
Simchat Torah
Simkhas torah
Pesakh
Passover
Old Country
Eastern Europe
United States
Summer camp
Transmission
Roots/heritage
Yiddish personalities
Jewish community
Urban
Love
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Other languages
New York City
Bronx
New York
Mordkhe Schaechter
Camp Hemshekh
Yugntruf
Yidish lerer-seminar
Sholem Aleichem shule
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1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Yiddishism
Yidish-Vokh
Pripetshik
Bainbridge Avenue
Tamil
Y.L. Peretz
Malka Heifetz Tussm
Link to Item:
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/woh-fi-0000462
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Language:
Yiddish