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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.