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.

Jews Beneath the Chapel: Identity While in College in New England

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Seth Rogovoy, culture critic, writer, and historian, reflects on how attending Williams College led him to identify more formally with his Jewishness, including joining the Jewish student organization.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Seth Rogovoy.

This excerpt is in English.

Seth Rogovoy was born in Jackson Heights, New York in 1960.