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.

Steffen Krogh's Oral History

Steffen Krogh, professor of German linguistics at Aarhus University, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 17, 2012 at the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Chicago, Illinois.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Steffen Krogh was born in Hjørring, Denmark in 1963.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Studying Yiddish in Places with a Tradition of Yiddish

2 min 19 sec

Mordkhe Schaechter's Pedagogy, Knowledge, and House

3 min 45 sec

An Introduction to Yiddish: Meeting Native Yiddish Speakers in Copenhagen

2 min 37 sec

Becoming Friends with Wolf Baumgarten, a Native Yiddish Speaker

4 min 5 sec

Discovering the Living Language of Haredi Yiddish

1 min 53 sec

A Dane Gets A Warmer Welcome Among Yiddish Speakers

3 min 2 sec

German Students of Yiddish: They Have to Understand the History

3 min 36 sec

Learning Romanian Yiddish In Order To Conduct Field Work

1 min 40 sec

Traveling to Eastern Europe

3 min 24 sec

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