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.
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Matthew Brittingham, student in the 2015 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program, explains how studying Jewish other religions at university expanded his world view beyond the fundamentalist Christian in which world he grew up.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Matthew Brittingham.
This excerpt is in English.
Matthew Brittingham was born in Pasadena, California in 1988.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
