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.
Lipschtick's Traveling Rabbi Shpiel
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Amanda Lundquist, artist and 2013-2014 Yiddish Book Center fellow, speaks about her Borscht Belt-influenced queer theater troupe, Lipschtick. She remembers how their performance in a theater competition in Austin was met with mixed reactions because of the its heavily Jewish humor.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Amanda Lundquist.
This excerpt is in English.
Amanda Lundquist was born in Florida in 1988.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
