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.

Isaac Bashevis Singer's Writings Opened Up a Whole World

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Jan Schwarz, Associate Professor in Yiddish at Lund University, speaks about the role that the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer played in nourishing his connection to Yiddish literature. Schwarz was shocked to find that the worlds opened up by I.B. Singer were not only fascinating and colorful, but relatable!

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jan Schwarz.

This excerpt is in English.

Jan Schwarz was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1954.