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.

Tradition versus Modernity: Finding My Balance

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Igor Senderovich, physics professor at the University of Connecticut, shares which aspects of Jewish identity and culture he feels are most important to building his life around as a modern, assimilated Jew.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Igor Senderovich.

This excerpt is in English.

Igor Senderovich was born in Uzhgorod, Ukraine in 1982.