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.

Kate Potter's Oral History

Kate Potter, Yiddish language student in the January term intensive at the Yiddish Book Center, was interviewed by Pauline Katz on January 20, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Kate Potter was born in Arcadia, California in 1991.

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Video highlights from this oral history

The Shift From Western to Eastern Europe

1 min 41 sec

Reactions to studying Yiddish

42 sec

A Story is a Story in Any Language

1 min 33 sec

"I'm just here for the books"

33 sec

Exposure to Yiddish

34 sec

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