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.

A Non-Jew in the Yiddish Revival

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Alyson West, student in the 2011 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program, talks about the importance of Yiddish and her role as a non-Jew in the Yiddish revival.

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.