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.
Isolation of Jewish Studies in Academia
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Jean Baumgarten details the isolation of Jewish studies from academia, and the study of the "human science", as a whole.
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.
