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.

Parallel Immigrant Story

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Christa Whitney elaborates on her experiences working in the Yiddish world and concludes that the Jewish immigrant story is often separated from the greater immigrant narrative, but both have quite a bit in common.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Christa Whitney.

This excerpt is in English.

Christa Whitney was born in Oakland, California in 1987.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Teaching World War II

2 min 47 sec

"It's just weird to them."

1 min 40 sec

"Actually, you are really important to the field."

2 min 31 sec

"It's an academic pursuit."

1 min 34 sec

Holocaust Literature at Smith College

1 min 1 sec

"I wasn't welcome"

2 min 15 sec

Reading Avrom Sutzkever

2 min 34 sec

"It's a Human Tragedy."

3 min 3 sec