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.
Maintaining a Sense of Jewishness While Living In A Small Town
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Jeffrey Veidlinger explains how his personal life intersects with his academic work (which includes interviewing and studying Jews of Eastern Europe) through the effort it takes to maintain Jewishness is a small non-Jewish area.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jeffrey Veidlinger.
This excerpt is in English.
Jeffrey Veidlinger was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1971.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.