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.

Alexander Frenkel's Oral History

Alexander Frenkel, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg, was interviewed by Tatiana (Tanya) Panova on February 16, 2017 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish and Russian.

Alexander Frenkel was born in Leningrad, Russia in 1961.