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.
Established Yiddish Organizations Weren't Thrilled with the Yiddish Book Center
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Ruth Stark, founding board member of the Yiddish Book Center and professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, remembers the reactions of established Yiddish organizations’ reactions to Yiddish Book Center founder and president Aaron Lansky's ideas.
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.
