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.
The Problems with University-Based Yiddish
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Joan Rudd, sculptor and Yiddish activist, speaks about the problems that she sees with people studying Yiddish in the university: not only does the academic perspective constrain the fluidity and fun of the language, but beginning study in one's twenties is much too late. The key to Yiddish's survival, she maintains, lies in teaching it to young children.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joan Rudd.
This excerpt is in English.
Joan Rudd was born in New York, New York in 1948.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
