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Deciding on Graduate School
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Michael Wex describes going to YIVO to ask about graduate programs and his meeting with a professor at Columbia. He explains his discussion with his father about graduate school and the outcome of that talk.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Michael Wex.
This excerpt is in English.
Michael Wex was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1954.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.