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.

The Flourishing of Yiddish Culture

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Cecile Kuznitz, professor of Jewish History at Bard College explains her interest in the flourishing Yiddish culture that existed between the two world wars.

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.