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.
Liturgical Language
Watch now:
Catherine Madsen, bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center, describes the changes in liturgical language that led her to write the book The Bones Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech.
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.
