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.

"Walking in as a Stranger, Leaving as Mishpokhe": Meeting with Members of the Yiddish Book Center

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Zvi Jankelowitz, Director of Institutional Advancement at the Yiddish Book Center, explains why the members of the Yiddish Book Center are unique among all other donors with whom he has worked in the non-profit world, both in their hospitality and in their intellectual dedication to Yiddish books and culture.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Zvi Jankelowitz.

This excerpt is in English.

Zvi Jankelowitz was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1956.