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.

Studying Yiddish in Places with a Tradition of Yiddish

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Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - compares the various programs where he studied Yiddish, noting the meaningfulness of studying the language in places where it has been widely spoken.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Steffen Krogh.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Steffen Krogh was born in Hjørring, Denmark in 1963.