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.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.