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.

Theodore (Ted) Steinberg's Oral History

Theodore Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Fredonia, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 16, 2012 at the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Chicago, Illinois.

This interview was conducted in English.

Theodore (Ted) Steinberg was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1947.

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Video highlights from this oral history

An Auspicious Friendship

1 min 55 sec

Yiddish For Secrets?

1 min 4 sec

Mendele and the Explosion of the Yiddish Literature

1 min 49 sec

Yiddish Literature Excluded From Anthologies

1 min 29 sec

Teaching, Delighting, and Doing the Right Thing: On Literature

2 min 41 sec

Yiddish LIterature as Part of Larger Western Tradition

1 min 33 sec

"Whatever Yiddish You Can Learn, Learn It"

1 min 20 sec

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