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.

"Becoming a part of history": working at YIVO in the 1990s

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Cecile Kuznitz, professor of Jewish History at Bard College, reflects on her time working at YIVO (the Yiddish Research Center in New York City), and wonders at how the 90s are already a historical period for the organization.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Cecile Kuznitz.

This excerpt is in English.

Cecile Kuznitz was born in New York, New York in 1967.

This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Distance from History

1 min 19 sec

Identity Politics in Jewish Studies

2 min 1 sec

Three Sets of Dishes

43 sec

The Yiddish Speaking World Today

1 min 28 sec

Vilna in 1993

2 min 40 sec

The Flourishing of Yiddish Culture

1 min 39 sec

Increasing importance of Yiddish in the Academy

1 min 12 sec

Visiting Vilna

2 min 40 sec

Advice to New Yiddish Scholars: Commitment

58 sec

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