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.

"A Besere Velt" (A Better World) Through Music and Culture

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Michael Katz, activist and grandson of Yiddish journalist Moishe Katz, explains how his involvement with the Yiddish Community Chorus "A Besere Velt" contributes to the transmission of Yiddishkeit, of the Yiddish language and its universal ideas.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Michael Katz.

This excerpt is in English.

Michael Katz was born in Bronx, New York in 1955.