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.

Ken Frieden's Oral History

Ken Frieden, B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University, was interviewed by Jessica Parker on December 18, 2012 at the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Chicago, Illinois.

This interview was conducted in English.

Ken Frieden was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1955.