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.

Sebastian Schulman's Oral History

Sebastian Schulman, Translation Project Coordinator at the Yiddish Book Center, was interviewed by Nina Dabek on September 27, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Sebastian Schulman was born in Los Angeles, California in 1984.

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Yiddish's Return to Mainstream American Jewish Culture

2 min 14 sec

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