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.

Richard Fein's Oral History

Richard Fein, poet and translator, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 19th, 2019, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Richard Fein was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1929.

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Video highlights from this oral history

"Yiddish Was For Me To Be Born Again": Coming Back to Yiddish

3 min 22 sec

"It Was the Poem Itself": The Aim of Translating Yiddish Poetry

2 min 3 sec

Discovering Yiddish Literature: Aleichem, Glatstein, and Other Yiddish Favorites

5 min 42 sec

Richard Fein Reads "The Northeast Corridor"

3 min 10 sec

"Yiddish Took On a Physicality": Conflicting Associations With Yiddish

3 min 30 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Yiddish Genesis by Richard Fein

With Everything We've Got: A Personal Anthology of Yiddish Poetry by Richard Fein

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