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.
Yiddish Literature, African Literature, and Modernism
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Marc Caplan - Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University - explains how Yiddish and African literature deal similarly with the concept of modernization.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marc Caplan.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Marc Caplan was born in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1967.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.