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.
"It Was the Genius of a People": Eastern European Jewish Folklore and the YIVO
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, on the importance of folklore to the YIVO project.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.
This excerpt is in English.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1942.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
