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.
"We need maintenance of the Yiddish cultural infrastructure"
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Jan Schwarz, Associate Professor in Yiddish at Lund University, speaks about the need for strengthening "Yiddish cultural infrastructure." Rather than focusing on translation, Schwarz suggests the community is better served by making Yiddish literature (not only books, but journal and newspaper articles as well) available online and publishing academic editions of great Yiddish works.
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.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
