Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Chava Rosenfarb, talks about her mother’s writing, her work as a translator, and the Yiddish language here.

“In a sense, the tragedy of Yiddish — the fact that it went so quickly from being the lingua franca of the majority of the world’s Jews to being a language spoken by the very few — brought us together. We became more than simply mother and daughter; we became partners and collaborators in a great literary enterprise.”