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.

Gender, Identity Building, and Culture Wars: Jewish History and Yiddish Studies in Poland

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Marcin Wodzinski, Director of the Centre for the Culture and Languages of the Jews at University of Wrocław, on the differences he sees between the study of Jewish History and the study of Yiddish in contemporary Poland.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marcin Wodzinski.

This excerpt is in English.

Marcin Wodzinski was born in Swidnicy, Poland in 1966.