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.

Queer Studies and Yiddish

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David Shneer, z"l, professor of history and religious studies and director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, explains how he discovered the ways that queer identity and Yiddish intersected.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Shneer.

This excerpt is in English.

David Shneer was born in Los Angeles, California in 1972. David died in 2020.