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.

Caraid O'Brien's Oral History

Caraid O'Brien, writer, performer, and director, including of Yiddish works, was interviewed (remotely) by Christa Whitney on February 28th, 2022 in New York City. Collecting These Times: American Jewish Experiences of the Pandemic project with the Council of American Jewish Museums, to record stories from the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020-2022

This interview was conducted in English.

Caraid O'Brien was born in Galway, Ireland in 1974.

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