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.

"It Is A Jewish Thing To Study Something Serious...": Why A Future Photographer Studied Biology

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Patrycja Dolowy, American-Polish photographer and oral historian, explains her educational background and the reasons her parents wanted her to study biology.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Patrycja Dolowy.

This excerpt is in English.

Patrycja Dolowy was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1978.

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