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.

A Dane Gets A Warmer Welcome Among Yiddish Speakers

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Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - explains how many Jews feel positively toward Danes due to various stories of Danes helping Jews during the Holocaust - and how this grants him better access to Yiddish speakers during his research than say, German scholars.

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.

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

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An Introduction to Yiddish: Meeting Native Yiddish Speakers in Copenhagen

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Becoming Friends with Wolf Baumgarten, a Native Yiddish Speaker

4 min 5 sec

Discovering the Living Language of Haredi Yiddish

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German Students of Yiddish: They Have to Understand the History

3 min 36 sec

Learning Romanian Yiddish In Order To Conduct Field Work

1 min 40 sec

Traveling to Eastern Europe

3 min 24 sec

Studying Yiddish in Places with a Tradition of Yiddish

2 min 19 sec

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