The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Academics Play a Big Role, But Not the Biggest—Thank God: The Yiddishist World Today

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Ken (Binyomen) Moss—director of Jewish Studies Program and Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University—reflects on what academics bring to today's Yiddish world and on the value of non-academics.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ken (Binyomen) Moss.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Ken (Binyomen) Moss was born in New Jersey in 1974.