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.

Joining a New Congregation: Havurat Sholom and the Havurah Movement

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Larry Rosenwald, professor of English at Wellesley College, translator, and translation theorist speaks about the Havurat reconstructionist Jewish movement and its congregation in Somerville, Massachusetts.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Larry Rosenwald.

This excerpt is in English.

Larry Rosenwald was born in Chicago, IL in 1948.