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.
“How Will We Remember the Jews of Europe?”: Bente Kahan on Memory, History and the Scar of the Holocaust in Poland
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Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, describes why it's important for there to be Jewish institutions on European soil in addition to the ones in the United States.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bente Kahan.
This excerpt is in English.
Bente Kahan was born in Oslo, Norway in 1958.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
