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 Beider's Oral History

Alexander Beider, author of numerous dictionaries of Jewish names, was interviewed by Tanya Panova on June 11th, 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

This interview was conducted in English.

Alexander Beider was born in Moscow, Russia in 1963.