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0:00 - Introduction 0:18 - Jan Describes His Family's Mixed Background of Polish and Litvak Jews

Keywords: 1940s; Belarusian Jewry; Belarusian Jews; Denmark; father; Holocaust survivor; immigration; Kauen; Kaunas, Lithuania; Kovna; Kovne; Kovno; Kowno; Litvak Jewry; Litvak Jews; migration; mother; Polish Jewry; Polish Jews; shtetel; shtetl; Varshah; Varshava; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilne; Vilnius, Lithuania; Warsaw, Poland; Warszawa; White Russian Jewry; White Russian Jews; Wilno

1:37 - What Life Was Like for Jan's Father in Pre-War Poland

Keywords: butcher; father; multilingualism; Petrikau; Petrikev; Petrikov; Petrokov; Petrokow; Piotrkow Tribunalski; Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland; Piotrkuv; Poland; Polish Jewry; Polish Jews; Polish language; Polish school system; pre-Holocaust Jewish communities; pre-war Jewish communities; Pyetrkuv; religious Jews; socioeconomic status; Yiddish language

3:00 - The Place of Jewish Culture in Jan's Childhood Home

Keywords: attitudes towards Yiddish; Danish language; Denmark; grandparents; Hebrew language; Jewish education; Jewish school system; linguistic transmission; Modern Orthodox Judaism; Modern Orthodoxy; parents; State of Israel; Yiddish education; Yiddish language

4:50 - Jan Describes the Jewish Community in Copenhagen

Keywords: Copenhagen, Denmark; Danish Jewry; Danish Jews; German Jewry; German Jews; Holocaust; Holocaust refugee; Holocaust survivor; immigration; immigration policy; interwar period; Jewish communities; migration; migration policy; minority language; pre-war period; refugees; Russian Jewry; Russian Jews; Sephardic Jewry; Sephardic Jews; Sephardim; Sweden; Ultra-Orthodox Jewry; Ultra-Orthodox Jews; Yiddish speaker; Yiddish-speaking communities

8:17 - The Impact of the Holocaust on Jan's Family

Keywords: 1980s; Denmark; father; Holocaust education; Holocaust memoir; Holocaust survivor; Holocaust testimony; Holocaust trauma; Petrikau; Petrikev; Petrikov; Petrokov; Petrokow; Piotrkow Tribunalski; Piotrków Trybunalski; Piotrkow Trybunalski; Piotrkuv; post-Holocaust Jewish communities; Pyetrkuv; Shoah Foundation; Steven Spielberg; Stockholm, Sweden; uncle

10:42 - The Place of Religion and Literature in Jan's Childhood Home

Keywords: chedar; cheder; communism; communist Jews; community party; Danish language; grandfather; heder; Jewish prayer; Jewish ritual; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kheyder; kosher; multilingualism; nonreligious Jews; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; religious education; Russian language; schul; secular Jews; secularism; seder; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; shul; synagogue; tailor; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature

12:57 - How Jan Got His Start in Yiddish Studies

Keywords: 1980s; 1990s; academia; academic; Columbia University; Copenhagen University; Danish Jewry; Danish Jews; Danish language; dissertation; doctorate; English language; graduate education; grandfather; I.B. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; Jewish history; Jewish studies; literature studies; Meïr Aron Goldschmidt; multilingualism; Ohio State University; Oxford University; PhD; Scandinavian literature; undergraduate education; University of Copenhagen; University of Oxford; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish expressions; Yiddish in translation; Yiddish language; Yiddish speaker; Yiddish studies

16:40 - The Impact of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Work on Jan

Keywords: "Di familye mushkat"; "The Family Moskat"; Copenhagen, Denmark; Danish Jewry; Danish Jews; Eastern European Jews; family history; I.B. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature

18:40 - Jan's Experiences Studying Yiddish at University

Keywords: 1980s; academia; academic; American Jewry; American Jews; Avraham Novershtern; Avrom Novershtern; British education system; Columbia University; Dovid Katz; graduate education; Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter; Marvin Mikhl Herzog; mentor; Mikhl Herzog; Mordche Schaecter; Mordekhai Shekhṭer; Mordkhe Schaecter; Motkhe Schaechter; Oxford University; Pesach Fiszman; Pesakh Fiszman; Rachmiel Peltz; United Kindgom; University of Oxford; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish speaker; Yiddishism; Yiddishist Jews; YIVO Institute

24:23 - Jan's Memories of Attending Yiddish Culture Programming

Keywords: Abraham Sutzkever; Avrom Sutzkever; Dina Abramowicz; landsmanshaft; New York City; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish organizations; Yiddish speaker; YIVO Institute; Yugntruf

26:21 - Jan's Recollections of the YIVO Institute

Keywords: 1980s; 1990s; American Jewry; American Jews; Center for Jewish History; Columbia University; Danish Jewry; Danish Jews; Eastern European Jewish culture; English language; New York City; Old Country; Old World; Polish language; Russian language; Scandinavian Jewry; Scandinavian Jews; Soviet Jewry; Soviet Jews; Soviet Union; technological advances; USSR; vernacular Yiddish; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilnius, Lithuania; Wilno; Yiddish culture; Yiddish institutions; Yiddish language; Yiddish organizations; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

30:18 - Jan Discusses the Significance of His Work with Yiddish Autobiographies

Keywords: anti-Semitism; antisemitism; autobiographical fiction; cultural preservation; Danish Jewry; Danish Jews; diaspora communities; globalization; Holocaust; Holocaust trauma; identity; immigration; life writing; linguistic preservation; migration; pogroms; travel; Yiddish autobiographies; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish writer

34:37 - Jan Talks About Some of His Mentors in Yiddish Studies

Keywords: academia; academic; Avraham Novershtern; Avrom Novershtern; Columbia University; Dan Miron; David G.Roskies; Hebrew University; Jerusalem; Jewish Theological Seminary; JTS; mentoring; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish studies

36:13 - Jan's Experiences Meeting Yiddishists from All Over the World

Keywords: American Jewry; American Jews; attitudes towards Yiddish; Auschwitz concentration camp; Chicago, Illinois; Holocaust; Holocaust survivor; immigration; Israeli culture; Israeli identity; Jerusalem; Jewish identity; Lodz; Lodzsh; migration; Polish Jewry; Polish Jews; Scandinavian Jewry; Scandinavian Jews; secular Jewry; secular Jews; State of Israel; Sweden; travel; Vita bussarna; White Buses; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish culture; Yiddish institutions; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish organizations; Yiddish songs; Yiddish speaker; Yiddishism; Yiddishist Jews; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; YIVO Society; Łódź Ghetto; Łódź, Poland

41:11 - Jan Describes the "White Buses" Operation

Keywords: Borås, Sweden; concentration camps; cultural transmission; Farband; Folke Bernadotte; Holocaust; Holocaust survivors; immigration; intergenerational transmission; Jewish communities; linguistic transmission; Lodz; Lodzsh; Malmö, Sweden; migration; minority language; refugees; Scandinavian Jewry; Scandinavian Jews; Swedish Jewry; Swedish Jews; Swedish language; Vita bussarna; White Buses; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish dialects; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Łódź, Poland

45:19 - Jan's Involvement in Sweden's Current Yiddish Community

Keywords: academia; academic; Jewish communities; Sweden; Swedish Jewry; Swedish Jews; Yiddish communities; Yiddish culture; Yiddish institutions; Yiddish language; Yiddish organizations; Yiddish speaker; Yiddish studies

48:23 - The Demographics of Jan's Students in Yiddish Studies

Keywords: academia; academic; America; Copenhagen, Denmark; cultural studies; doctorate; Dos Bletele; Europe; Germany; graduate education; identity studies; Jewish-non-Jewish relations; linguistic studies; Lund University; master's degree; minority languages; PhD; Poland; professor; Salomon Schulman; Scandinavia; Sweden; teacher; undergraduate education; United States; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish publications; Yiddish studies; Yiddishism; Yiddishist Jews

52:34 - The Connections between Jan's Academic Interests and Personal Life

Keywords: "Post-War Yiddish Holocaust Literature"; academia; academic; cultural transmission; father; Holocaust; Holocaust commemoration; Holocaust literature; Holocaust survivor; Holocaust trauma; intergenerational transmission; linguistic transmission; professor; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish speaker; Yiddish writers; Yiddish-speaking families

55:33 - Jan's Perspective on the Place of Academia in Cultural Transmission

Keywords: "Mælkemanden Tevje"; "Tevye der milkhiker"; "Tevye the Dairyman"; academia; academic; cultural transmission; Danish language; Jewish-non-Jewish relations; multiculturalism; multilingualism; post-vernacular Yiddish; professor; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; teacher; translation studies; Yiddish culture; Yiddish in translation; Yiddish language; Yiddish speaker; Yiddish studies

59:06 - The Place of Yiddish Studies within Academia

Keywords: "Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture"; academia; academic; academic editions; academic publishing; bibliography; Danish language; Danish literature; diaspora languages; diaspora studies; internet; language studies; linguistic studies; professor; teacher; technological advances; Yiddish culture; Yiddish Diaspora; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish studies

63:16 - Jan Describes Some of the Trends in Yiddish Studies

Keywords: academia; academic; academic editions; academic publishing; book preservation; Chasidic Jews; Chassidic Jews; Hasidic Jews; Hassidic Jews; internet; language studies; linguistic studies; linguistic transmission; literature preservation; literature studies; post-vernacular Yiddish; post-vernacularity; professor; teacher; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish in translation; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish studies

68:59 - Jan Describes the Need for Academic Editions of Classic Yiddish Works

Keywords: "Mælkemanden Tevje"; "Tevye der milkhiker"; "Tevye the Dairyman"; academia; academic; academic editions; academic publishing; cultural transmission; linguistic transmission; professor; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; teacher; translator; Yiddish culture; Yiddish in translation; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish studies

71:27 - Jan's Perspective on the Yiddish Revival

Keywords: 1990s; academia; academic; American Jewry; American Jews; attitudes towards Yiddish; intergenerational transmission; Jewish communities; Jewish education; Jewish school system; Modern Hebrew language; normalization; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish in academia; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival; Yiddish studies; Zionism

75:47 - "Be Open-Minded": Jan's Advice for Potential Students of Yiddish

Keywords: academia; academic; advice; eytse; language studies; lashon kodesh; linguistic studies; loshn-koydesh; professor; teacher; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish speaker; Yiddish studies

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