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.

George Jochnowitz's Oral History

George Jochnowitz, professor emeritus of linguistics at the College of Staten Island, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 15, 2013 at the Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

This interview was conducted in English.

George Jochnowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1937.