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.

"I Told Him I Could Read Yiddish": The Teenager's Lie that Lead to My Lifelong Academic Involvement with Yiddish

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Rachel Rojanski, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, reflects her first major project on Eastern European Jewish history, begun when she was in high school.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rachel Rojanski.

This excerpt is in English.

Rachel Rojanski was born in Israel.