Dan Bloom: For linguistics scholar in Taiwan, Yiddish is more than just shtick

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:

S.H. Chang is a Yiddish specialist at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Taiwan.

She may be one of a kind ” after all, you don’t find many Chinese academics in Taiwan studying and writing about Yiddish.

A soft-spoken Taiwanese woman in her early 30s who has written about and researched the Yiddish language ” she speaks it as well ” Chang is one of the few Yiddish philologists in the Chinese-speaking world.

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