American and European Jews: What Should the Connection Be?
Last week, a film crew from French public television visited the Book Center to interview Aaron Lansky, and then some of the young people that are part of the organization. Seven of us yunge mentshn...
View ArticleYiddish in the Academy
In this ongoing series, the Wexler Oral History Project interviews prominent figures in Academia contributing research in areas related to Yiddish literature, language, and culture.read more
View ArticleInterviews with academics at AJS
This past December I flew to Washington D.C. with the other four Fellows, Yiddish Book Center Bibliographer Catherine Madsen, and Christa Whitney, Director of the Wexler Oral History Project, to attend...
View ArticleJudaeo-Spanish Speakers in Thessaloniki
Emma Morgenstern, student of the summer program, recounts her undergraduate thesis research on Judeo-Spanish speakers of Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece.
View ArticleParallel Immigrant Story
Christa Whitney elaborates on her experiences working in the Yiddish world and concludes that the Jewish immigrant story is often separated from the greater immigrant narrative, but both have quite a...
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