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.
Taking An Interest in Jewish Culture
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Zachary Baker, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at Stanford University, talks about his initial reluctance to explore Jewish topics. He goes on, however, to describe the books and other sources of his father's "Judaica Room" which had exposed him to Jewish literature from an early age.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zachary Baker.
This excerpt is in English.
Zachary Baker was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1950.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
