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.

"Daring" to Find Out Who You Are: Ilan Stavans on Writing and Jewish Identity

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Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, discusses literature, Jewishness, and the fluidness and mutability of identity.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ilan Stavans.

This excerpt is in English.

Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1961.

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