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.

Motl Didner's Oral History

Motl Didner, Associate Artistic Director of the Folksbeine National Yiddish Theatre, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 17, 2013 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Motl Didner was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1973.

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Video highlights from this oral history

One Foot in Shushan, One in Warsaw: Reflections on Manger's Megillah

5 min 30 sec

"We Had to Forge Our Link Ourselves": A New Generation of Yiddish Theatre

3 min 42 sec

Yiddish: The Missing Link in My Jewish Education

2 min 46 sec

Yiddish Activism: Walking the Walk

1 min 22 sec

Yiddish Theater Has Never Been One Single Thing

2 min 24 sec

The Encouraging Warmth of a Yiddish-Speaking Community

1 min 45 sec

The Spiritual Depth of H. Leivick's "The Golem"

2 min 45 sec

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