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.

Alyson West's Oral History

Alyson West, 2011 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program student, was interviewed by Hillary Ossip on July 11, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Alyson West was born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1989.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Yiddish Words in English

1 min 27 sec

A Typical Class With Yuri Vedenyapin

2 min 1 sec

Being at the Yiddish Book Center

1 min 13 sec

Learning the Jewish Context for Yiddish Words

2 min 6 sec

A Non-Jew in the Yiddish Revival

2 min 42 sec

Only Non-Jew taking Yiddish

2 min 41 sec

Small Yiddish World of Today

1 min 44 sec

Taking Hebrew and Yiddish

1 min 48 sec

Walt Whitman in Yiddish

3 min 38 sec

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