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.

Ruth Smith's Oral History

Ruth Smith, Yiddish Book Center docent, was interviewed by Danielle Winter on February 21, 2014 at the Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Ruth Smith was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1940.