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.
Polonized Jews Are Not THE Story
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Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College reflects on his mentor, Antony Polonsky. Dynner argues that Polonsky's strong focus on Polonized Jews obscures the fact that the majority of Polish Jews were deeply traditionalist throughout the nineteenth, and perhaps twentieth, century.
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.
