"He was an activist teacher who fought for Yiddish"
EX62_151 Ilene Gelbaum describes her teacher, Mordkhe Schaechter, as having had a large impact upon her life.More from this narrator: Ilene Gelbaum
View ArticleA Cold Yiddish
Professor Kalman Weiser explains that although people in Toronto love Yiddish and many speak it fluently, they do not use it as an everyday language. (Yiddish with subtitles)More from this narrator:...
View ArticleDr. Mordkhe Schaechter: "Language Culture and Culture Language" (March 18,...
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View ArticleMordkhe Schaechter's House and Kartotekn
EX223_2507 Paul (Hershl) Glasser - Forverts columnist and former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center at YIVO - describes linguist and mentor Mordkhe Schaechter's house on Bainbridge Avenue, which was...
View ArticleLike A Son: Mordkhe Schaechter’s Projects Live On
EX223_2506 Paul (Hershl) Glasser - Forverts columnist and former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center at YIVO - describes the work of his mentor, linguist Mordkhe Schaechter, including several collections...
View ArticleStudying Yiddish Under Mordkhe Schaechter
EX369_2404 Zachary Baker, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at Stanford University, shares his memories of Mordkhe Schaechter, who taught him at the Columbia Summer Program....
View Article"An Entire World of Creativity": The Secular Yiddish Scene in New York in the...
EX393_3532 Avi Hoffman, actor, recalls his childhood neighborhood around Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx as a center of creativity and rebirth for the secular Yiddishists who made it their home after...
View ArticleMordkhe Schaechter's Pedagogy, Knowledge, and House
EX357_2835 Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - remembers studying Yiddish with linguist Mordkhe Schaechter and describes Schaechter's home and collection of note...
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