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.
Connections to Yiddish across Generations
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Catherine Madsen, bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center, describes how the different generations who come to the Yiddish Book Center relate to Yiddish language, culture, and literature.
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.
