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.
Fighting for Inclusion of Female Grammatical Genders for Career Terms
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Magdalena Kozlowska, Polish historian and Yiddish teacher, shows the camera her bag, which lists careers in Polish with feminine conjugations. She explains that the bag is a statement in a country where certain careers are not associated with women and whose feminine conjugations are therefore not taken seriously.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Magdalena Kozłowska.
This excerpt is in English and Polish.
Magdalena Kozłowska was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1987.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
