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.
"You Can't Know the Culture and the History Without the Language"
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Jordana de Bloeme, scholar of Eastern European Jewish history, laments the prevalence of conferences and festivals about Yiddish that feature no spoken Yiddish, and speaks to the role that academics play in propagating the learning of the Yiddish language.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jordana de Bloeme.
This excerpt is in English.
Jordana de Bloeme was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1982.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
