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.

Good, But Strong: Navigating Jewish-American Identity

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Max Kellerman, sportscaster and Yiddish enthusiast, talks about his identity as an American Jew and how it is rooted in American values of strength and individuality as well as Jewish values of compassion and justice.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Max Kellerman.

This excerpt is in English.

Max Kellerman was born in Bronx, New York in 1973.

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"Better Than a Biblical Narrative" Speaking Yiddish as Revenge Against Hitler

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Breaking the Chain: New Americans and the (Lack of) Transmission of Old World Values

1 min 54 sec

"Yiddish is Like The Force"

1 min 57 sec

Transmitting Secular Jewish Identity Through Yiddish

2 min 54 sec

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