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.

Han Xu's Oral History

Han Xu, Yiddish language student in the January term intensive at the Yiddish Book Center, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on January 14, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Han Xu was born in Shanghai, China in 1989.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Language is a powerful tool

2 min 4 sec

Holocaust refugees in Shanghai

1 min 49 sec

University in the US

2 min 11 sec

Words blended into Yiddish

1 min 6 sec

Diversity within the Jewish experience

2 min 36 sec

Pursuing advanced Yiddish study

1 min 21 sec

Oral History Practicum

1 min 23 sec

More information about this oral history

This narrator's full interview is not available.

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