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Yiddish Literature Excluded From Anthologies
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Ted Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Fredonia, expresses his frustration about the absence of Yiddish literature in anthologies of world literature, and affirms the necessity of keeping these texts alive by reading them.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Theodore (Ted) Steinberg.
This excerpt is in English.
Theodore (Ted) Steinberg was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1947.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.