•  Browse our weekly featured clips.

Learn through stories with featured excerpts from the Wexler Oral History Project, complete with historical and cultural context.  Each month, the Wexler Oral History Project highlights a different theme or story through excerpts from its collection.

Highlights from the collection

• Jews and Activism in the 1960s
• Teaching and Learning Yiddish: Students, teachers, and performing artists reflect
• Honoring the memory of Adrienne Cooper, Yiddish performer and mentor to a generation
• Chanukah around the world
• Jewish farmers in Colorado
• Yiddish summer camps
• Stories from Jewish Canada
• Excerpts from an amazing interview with Ilene Gelbaum, midwife.

In addition to these topics, the Wexler Oral History Project has several series of ongoing interviews.

Favorite Yiddish Memories  

Learn some Yiddish, and have some fun with our series on Favorite Yiddish Memories.

• See a compilation from visitors, performers, and Yiddish Book Center staff collected during the Paperbridge Arts Festival, July 2011.
• See a compilation collected and told by interns in the 2010 Steiner Summer Program.

Beyond the Books series

Even if you can't read Yiddish, you can learn something about the people behind the Yiddish books in our collection in our Beyond the Books series of interviews with living relatives of Yiddish writers.

• Harriet Bonfeld and Norman Feinberg describe their "dapper" father, Yiddish writer Leon Feinberg.
• David Mazower gives insight into his great-grandfather, controversial and widely read Sholem Asch.

Performing Artists series

How are musicians and other performing artists using Yiddish in their work today?  Get an inside look with our Performing Artists series.

• In August 2011, we interviewed 12 Klezmer musicians from around the world.  Hear from established artists like Theodore Bikel and Frank London, as well as up-and-coming Jewish musicians such as Sarah Gordon and Daniel Kahn, as they reflect on how Jewish music is being preserved and updated.

Yiddish in the Academy

What's the place of Yiddish in the Academy?  Gain some insight through our interviews with scholars engaged in Yiddish.

• Teachers, students, and performing artists alike about the joys of studying Yiddish.
• Hear from scholars from around the world in excerpts from interviews conducted at the Association of Jewish Studies Conference in Boston, MA in 2010.
• Hear from faculty of the Yiddish Book Center's Steiner Summer Program.