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.

University of Michigan, One of the Best Places for Studying Yiddish

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Saul Hankin, 2013-2014 Yiddish Book Center fellow, shares some of the resources that his alma mater, University of Michigan, has to offer for the study of Yiddish, and explains that "whatever you want to do with your Yiddish... chances are there is someone at U of M who can facilitate that."

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Saul Hankin.

This excerpt is in English.

Saul Hankin was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1991.