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.
Discovering Jewish Thought
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Catherine Madsen, bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center, described how she first became exposed to Jewish thought while writing a book of Pagan rituals. This discovery would eventually lead to her converting to Judaism.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Catherine Madsen.
This excerpt is in English.
Catherine Madsen was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1952.
