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.

Becoming Friends with Wolf Baumgarten, a Native Yiddish Speaker

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Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - recounts how an elderly Yiddish speaker from Lodz became a true friend.

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.