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.

Catherine Madsen's Oral History

Catherine Madsen, bibliographer at the Yiddish Book Center, was interviewed by Marian Broder on October 5, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Catherine Madsen was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1952.