Speak English and Pay a Fine: Yiddish in the Schaechter Home
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Yiddish poet and daughter of linguist Mordkhe Schaechter, remembers her parents' strict Yiddish-only policy, and reflects on the languages spoken in her own home today: Tamil and Yiddish.
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