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.
“Like a Slap in the Face”: Identity and Outsideness as a Child of Jewish Polish Parents in Sweden
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Yitzhak Rapoport—Acclaimed Rabbi with international service and teaching experience—describes his experience as a first-generation Jew in Sweden, including being considered a foreigner despite his Swedish identity.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yitzhak Rapoport.
This excerpt is in English.
Yitzhak Rapoport was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1977.