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.
"Classical music, In an odd way, was a very Jewish thing"
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Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College, speaks about his childhood in a WASP-dominated, competitive part of Potomac, Maryland, and how he feels that there is some connection between the music lessons taken by Jewish children of the area and their Jewish identity.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Glenn Dynner.
This excerpt is in English.
Glenn Dynner was born in Washington, D.C. in 1961.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
