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.
Joshua Lambert's Oral History
Joshua Lambert, Yiddish Book Center academic director, was interviewed by Jessica Parker on November 28, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.
This interview was conducted in English.
Joshua Lambert was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1979.
Video highlights from this oral history
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Themes:
- Advice
- Favorite Yiddish word
- Yiddish words
- Childhood
- Jewish Identity
- Yiddish language
- Yiddish teaching
- Yiddish learning
- Yiddish revival and activism
- Coming back to Yiddish
- Hebrew
- Press
- Radio
- Literature
- Career and Professional Life
- Academia
- Holocaust
- Education
- United States
- Canada
- Yiddish Book Center
- Summer camp
- Cultural transmission
- Jewish community
- Joshua Lambert
- Toronto
- Ontario
- Ann Arbor
- Michigan
- Ruth Wisse
- Deborah Dash Moore
- Jonathan Freedman
- Anita Norich
- Harvard University
- University of Michigan
- YIVO
- New York University
- NYU
- Columbia University
- Associated Hebrew Day Schools
- Associated Hebrew Schools
- Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto
- Tanenbaum CHAT Wallenberg Campus
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- modernism
Keywords:
- Joshua Lambert
- Toronto
- Ontario
- Ann Arbor
- Michigan
- Ruth Wisse
- Deborah Dash Moore
- Jonathan Freedman
- Anita Norich
- Harvard University
- University of Michigan
- YIVO
- New York University
- NYU
- Columbia University
- Associated Hebrew Day Schools
- Associated Hebrew Schools
- Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto
- Tanenbaum CHAT Wallenberg Campus
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- modernism
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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