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.

Advice? Read Like Mad!

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Catherine Madsen, bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center, offers her advice for future generations: "Just keep reading."

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.