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.
Interpreting Quotes by Emmanuel Levinas
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Catherine Madsen, bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center, shares two quotes by philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and explains how they relate to her practice of Judaism at the Jewish Community of Amherst.
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.
