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.

German Students of Yiddish: They Have to Understand the History

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Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - tells how Germans studying Yiddish are sometimes treated coldly by their teachers, explaining that he understands that it is because many Jews will not forgive Germany (and by extension Germans) for its actions during the Holocaust.

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.