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.

You Must Feel the Connection with Other People: Advice for Learning Yiddish

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Małgorzata Maciejewska, graduate student in Jewish Studies at University of Wrocław, suggests songs, reading, lectures and festivals as ways of learning about the Yiddish world.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Małgorzata Maciejewska.

This excerpt is in English.

Małgorzata Maciejewska was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1989.

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

Other video highlights from this oral history

“Now I Belong to the Yiddish World”: Reflections of A Jewish Studies Student in Poland

1 min 1 sec

We Must Remember About Peoples' Lives, What They Did: The Historical Importance of Yiddish in Poland

1 min 53 sec

Not English, Yiddish!: Yiddish Awareness in Poland and Abroad

2 min 30 sec

Those Poems are so Great!: Learning Yiddish to Learn Poetry

2 min 27 sec

From the Morning to the Evening: Transcribing Jewish Gravestones in Mikulov, Czech Republic

2 min 47 sec

It's More Intimate: The Different Uses of Yiddish and Hebrew

1 min 58 sec

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