Christa Patricia Whitney (Yiddish: קריסטאַ פּאַטרישאַ װיטני; born 1987) is an American oral historian, Yiddishist, and documentary filmmaker.
[1] While a student at El Cerrito High School, Whitney became interested in Jewish history upon taking an elective class on World War II.
[2][3] After graduating in 2009, she began working at the nearby Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts as an intern.
[2] In 2013, Whitney conducted an oral history interview with actor Leonard Nimoy in Los Angeles.
[7][8] In 2021, with Hadas Kalderon and Emily Felder, she co-directed and co-produced the feature-length documentary film Ver Vet Blaybn?