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.

Jan Schwarz's Oral History

Jan Schwartz, Associate Professor in Yiddish at Lund University, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 18, 2012 at the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Chicago, Illinois.

This interview was conducted in English and Yiddish.

Jan Schwarz was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1954.

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"It Was Like You Entered the Old World": YIVO

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Life Writing as a Way to Process Displacement and Trauma: Jan Schwarz on Yiddish Autobiography

4 min 36 sec

Yiddish Speakers and Yiddish Culture in Post-War Sweden

3 min 42 sec

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3 min 2 sec

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