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.
"The Holocaust Is Not the Inevitable Outcome of the History of the Polish Jews"
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, director of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, explains how a part of the Museum's work is to balance discussions of the Holocaust while drawing out the importance of the 1,000 years of history between Poles and Jews.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.
This excerpt is in English.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1942.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
