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.

Reconstruction Becomes Excavation: 11th Century Jewish Community

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Charles Corfield talks about the discovery of an 11th century Jewish community in Cambridge, England during a construction project.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Charles Corfield.

This excerpt is in English.

Charles Corfield was born in Wales, United Kingdom in 1959.