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.

Sending Yiddish Books around the World

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Catherine Madsen, bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center, tells how the Yiddish Book Center sends books around the world, to academic institutions and individuals.

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.