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.
"I Packed Up My Things and Left": Studying Song and Dance in Eastern Europe
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Sarah Ellen Zarrow, scholar of Jewish history, describes her experience doing ethnographic research in Eastern Europe.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sarah Zarrow.
This excerpt is in English.
Sarah Zarrow was born in Stow, MA in 1982.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.