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.

What Comic Art Can Do: Creating “Yiddishkeit” Across Generations

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Paul Buhle, author and social historian, discusses the process behind his comics anthology Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land, co-created with Harvey Pekar, z”l, and including the contributions of artists Sharon Rudahl and Nick Thorkelson. Paul explains how the strips for the book are both educational and entertaining, demonstrative of “what comic art can do.”

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul Buhle.

This excerpt is in English.

Paul Buhle was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1944.