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.

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Dorothy Goldstone, a writer and Yiddish Book Center volunteer, explains how a course in modern Jewish history challenged the historical narrative of Sinai and the Holocaust that she'd been taught in Hebrew School, galvanized her interest in Jewish studies and changed her life path to a career in Jewish historical fiction.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Dorothy Goldstone.

This excerpt is in English.

Dorothy Goldstone was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948.