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.

Debra Caplan's Oral History

Debra Caplan, Ph.D. candidate at Harvard in Yiddish Studies, was interviewed on December 19, 2011 by Christa Whitney at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Washington, D.C.

This interview was conducted in English.

Debra Caplan was born in North Wales, Pennsylvania in 1985.