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.

History Made Tangible

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Sophia Wise expresses the importance of studying Yiddish history in the Yiddish Book Center, surrounded by the material culture itself.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sophia Wise.

This excerpt is in English.

Sophia Wise was born in Orlando, Florida in 1992.