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.

Any Jew That's Looking For Their History Will Find Yiddish

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Amanda Lundquist, artist and 2013-2014 Yiddish Book Center fellow, speaks about the current place of Yiddish in academia, Hasidic communities, and enthusiastic Jewish youth. She discusses her optimism about the future of the language.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Amanda Lundquist.

This excerpt is in English.

Amanda Lundquist was born in Florida in 1988.