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.

Lynn Yanis's Oral History

Lynn Yanis, volunteer at the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, was interviewed by Sebastian Schulman on October 19, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Lynn Yanis was born in Bronx, New York in 1957.