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.

Bente Kahan's Oral History

Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on April 27, 2013 in Wroclaw, Poland.

This interview was conducted in English.

Bente Kahan was born in Oslo, Norway in 1958.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Yiddish Songs Locked in the Closet

1 min 17 sec

Performing Mordechai Gebirtig at Yad Vashem

5 min 2 sec

“How Will We Remember the Jews of Europe?”: Bente Kahan on Memory, History and the Scar of the Holocaust in Poland

4 min 3 sec

Bente Kahan and Jidisz far Alle

3 min 1 sec

Bente Kahan Sings Reyzele by Mordechai Gebirtig

2 min 39 sec

“Above the Town”: A Yiddish-Norwegian Cabaret

1 min 40 sec

"He Wanted Us to Become People of the World, But Not Forget Who We Are”: Bente Kahan Sings the Yiddish Song that Reminds Her Most of her Father

4 min 40 sec

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