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.

Expanding My View of Yiddish Literature

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Larry Rosenwald, professor of English at Wellesley College, translator, and translation theorist, explains how his view of Yiddish Literature expanded.

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.