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.

Eli Rosenblatt's Oral History

Eli Rosenblatt, scholar of Jewish studies, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 25th, 2020 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

This interview was conducted in English.

Eli Rosenblatt was born in Norwalk, CT in 1984.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Feminism, Jewish Studies, and the Myth of Yiddish as a Feminine Language

4 min 11 sec

Clothing as an Expression of My Jewishness

2 min 36 sec

The Power of Poetry: My High School Music Preferences

3 min 1 sec

"A Good Moment to Embody My Oppression": Eli Rosenblatt on Studying Abroad in Europe

2 min 3 sec

The Difference Between Yiddish as an Identity and Yiddish as a Study

3 min 17 sec

How I Started Studying Yiddish: The Yiddish Book Center's Steiner Summer Yiddish Program

4 min 2 sec

Isaac Mayer Dick's Yiddish Translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin

6 min 21 sec

Reading American Literature in Yiddish

3 min 32 sec

Yiddish Writer-Translator Robert Magidoff

2 min 48 sec

The Importance of Translating Yiddish to English

1 min 9 sec

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