Limmud Seattle 2018 presenter Pamela Brown Lavitt discusses how her journey to discovering her Jewish identity led her to learn Yiddish, collect stories as a folklorist in the Chasidic community, and ultimately serve as an oral historian for the Jewish Women’s Archive. She tells about the process of interviewing key older women in the Seattle Jewish community and thereby gaining a rich knowledge the unique Jewish history of the city, and some women’s experiences of it. She goes on to give advice on how to interview Jewish women in your life, and concludes by drawing connections between her work as an academic and oral historian and as director of SJCC Arts + Ideas and the Seattle Jewish Film Festival at the Stroum Jewish Community Center. Learn more at www.sjcc.org/arts-ideas. Interview by Tamar Libicki.