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.

Igor Senderovich's Oral History

Igor Senderovich, a researcher at Arizona State University and data scientist, was interviewed by Rola Younes on June 18, 2014, at the Yiddish Book Center.

This interview was conducted in English.

Igor Senderovich was born in Uzhgorod, Ukraine in 1982.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Keeping Politics Out Of the Home

1 min 37 sec

(Tip-)Toeing the Party Line in Soviet Ukraine

3 min 8 sec

First Impressions of America as a Russian Jewish Immigrant in the 1990s

3 min

An Extended Jewish Family Deciding to Leave Ukraine in the 1990s

3 min 53 sec

Constructing My Jewish Identity and Encounters With Diaspora Judaism

4 min 29 sec

Tradition versus Modernity: Finding My Balance

2 min 1 sec

"As If The Twentieth Century Didn't Happen": Making Personal Choices About Religion In My Family

2 min 1 sec

A Case for Slow and Deliberate Change

2 min 10 sec

"This is Something That's a Burden": Becoming Aware of My Jewish Identity in Soviet Ukraine

2 min 54 sec

Inexplicably Other: Being a Religious Minority in Soviet Ukraine

1 min 51 sec

Transitioning From Secular Ukraine to a Brooklyn Yeshiva

3 min 56 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Man and two children

Rita and Shika Senderovich 4

Older woman with baby

Vera Kvalvasser Senderovich

Woman with girl and baby

Rita with a tree

Family portrait

Vera and Berl Senderovich

Rita and Vera

Maria (Mania) Sadovskaya

Rita

Rita and Shika Senderovich

Rita Kvalvasser Senderovich

Solomon Kvalvasser

Rita and Shika Senderovich 2

Maria, Pinchas, and Zlota Senderovich

Vera and Berl Senderovich

Igor Senderovich portrait 1

Rita Senderovich and grandson Sasha

Igor Senderovich portrait 2

Rita and daughter Maria

Woman with child

Rita and Shika Senderovich 3

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