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.

The Full Range of Jewish Experience: Jackie Hoffman on the Religiosity of Her Family

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Jackie Hoffman, stand-up comedian and actor, considers the level of observance in her home growing up, where she heard Yiddish and encountered observance, and how it translated to the lives of her and her siblings in adulthood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jackie Hoffman.

This excerpt is in English.

Jackie Hoffman was born in Queens in 1960.