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.

Matthew Brittingham's Oral History

Matthew Brittingham, student in the 2015 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program, was interviewed by Isaac D. Moore on July 20, 2015 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Matthew Brittingham was born in Pasadena, California in 1988.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Choosing a Path: From Comparative Religious Studies to Jewish History

2 min 35 sec

Coming to an Understanding: Finding Jewish Studies with A Fundamentalist Christian Background

3 min 51 sec

Beyond a Black and White Worldview: How Jewish Studies Influenced My Perspective

2 min 58 sec

The Idiosyncrasies of Yiddish; The Poetics of Hebrew

1 min 33 sec

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