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.
Roots in Yiddish, Roots that Move
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Amanda Lundquist, artist and 2013-2014 Yiddish Book Center fellow, explains that her connection to Yiddish as diasporic rather than Zionist because it resonates with her identity and history as an Ashkenazi Jew.
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 Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
