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.

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Jean Baumgarten differentiates between the study of Yiddish culture and the study of Eastern European culture in a broader sense.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jean Baumgarten.

This excerpt is in English.

Jean Baumgarten was born in Paris, France in 1950.

This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

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What is Ashkenazic Society

2 min 58 sec

Transmission: an Academic's Duty to the Community

3 min 6 sec

Ashkenazic culture and subcultures

1 min 51 sec

Beginning of Yiddish Studies

2 min 19 sec

Continuity Between Medieval and Contemporary Communities

2 min 31 sec

Isolation of Jewish Studies in Academia

1 min 27 sec

Medem Bibliotheque

1 min 47 sec

Tsene Rene

3 min

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