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.

Gennady Estraikh's Oral History

Gennady Estraikh, scholar of Soviet Yiddish history and literature, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on April 9th, 2018 at New York University in New York, NY.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Gennady Estraikh was born in Zaporozhe, Ukraine in 1952.