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.

How Yiddish theater Has Come Full Circle

Watch now:

Rick Grossman talks about the revivals of older Yiddish culture being done by the National Yiddish Theater, Folksbeine. He talks about the renewed interest by the newer generation to learn about the history of Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rick Grossman.

This excerpt is in English.

Rick Grossman was born in New York, New York in 1948.