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.
“My Real Deep Engagement with Non-Jewish European High Culture was an Inoculation” Against the Baal Teshuva Impulse
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Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College, recounts with excitement his experiences at yeshiva in Israel and explains that he could almost see himself studying Talmud in Ultra-Orthodox communities for the rest of his life, were it not for his deep-rooted love for non-Jewish European high culture.
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.
