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.

Alexandra Polyan's Oral History

Alexandra Polyan, Yiddish teacher and philologist, was interviewed by Tanya Panova on February 27th 2017, at Moscow State University, in Moscow, Russia.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Alexandra Polyan was born in Moscow in 1986.