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.

Learning Romanian Yiddish In Order To Conduct Field Work

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Steffen Krogh - professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University - tells how, although he speaks standard Yiddish, he has learned to speak in a different (southern) dialect so that he can conduct field work in Romania.

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.

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German Students of Yiddish: They Have to Understand the History

3 min 36 sec

Traveling to Eastern Europe

3 min 24 sec

Studying Yiddish in Places with a Tradition of Yiddish

2 min 19 sec

Mordkhe Schaechter's Pedagogy, Knowledge, and House

3 min 45 sec

An Introduction to Yiddish: Meeting Native Yiddish Speakers in Copenhagen

2 min 37 sec

Becoming Friends with Wolf Baumgarten, a Native Yiddish Speaker

4 min 5 sec

Discovering the Living Language of Haredi Yiddish

1 min 53 sec

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