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.

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Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College, speaks about how his study abroad in Israel led to his discovery that his individual idiosyncrasies were part of a much larger Jewish cultural inheritance -- and that is something of which to be proud.

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.

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