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.

Being at the Yiddish Book Center

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Alyson West describes her first time at the Yiddish Book Center and her positive experiences as a student in the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Alyson West.

This excerpt is in English.

Alyson West was born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1989.