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.

Reading American Literature in Yiddish

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Eli Rosenblatt, scholar of Jewish studies, discusses his view on translations of American literature into Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eli Rosenblatt.

This excerpt is in English.

Eli Rosenblatt was born in Norwalk, CT in 1984.

This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Feminism, Jewish Studies, and the Myth of Yiddish as a Feminine Language

4 min 11 sec

Clothing as an Expression of My Jewishness

2 min 36 sec

The Power of Poetry: My High School Music Preferences

3 min 1 sec

"A Good Moment to Embody My Oppression": Eli Rosenblatt on Studying Abroad in Europe

2 min 3 sec

The Difference Between Yiddish as an Identity and Yiddish as a Study

3 min 17 sec

How I Started Studying Yiddish: The Yiddish Book Center's Steiner Summer Yiddish Program

4 min 2 sec

Isaac Mayer Dick's Yiddish Translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin

6 min 21 sec

Yiddish Writer-Translator Robert Magidoff

2 min 48 sec

The Importance of Translating Yiddish to English

1 min 9 sec

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