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.
Unheated Buildings and Bills to Pay: Struggles in the Early Years of Yiddish Book Center
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Ruth Stark, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, remembers the early years of the Yiddish Book Center (then the National Yiddish Book Exchange), of which she was on the founding board of directors, as "a bit of a challenge."
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ruth Stark.
This excerpt is in English.
Ruth Stark was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1950.
