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.
"In the Scheme of 15 Minutes, You Can Pass Through Cultures": Driving Down the West Side Highway in the 70s
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Madeline Schwartzman, writer, filmmaker, and architect, remembers driving down the West Side Highway of New York City in the 1970s and the landscape of cultures that she passed through.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Madeline Schwartzman.
This excerpt is in English.
Madeline Schwartzman was born in New York, NY.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
