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.

Chana Mlotek Sings an Original Tu B'Shvat Song in Yiddish

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Chana Mlotek, music archivist at YIVO, sings an original song she wrote for the Jewish holiday Tu B'Shvat. Tu B'Shvat is also known as Rosh HaShanah La'llanot, literatlly "New Year of the Trees," and has recently become a day of ecological awareness.

This song is printed in Chana Motek and Malke Gottlieb's Yontefdike Teg: Song Book for the Jewish Holidays (http://www.amazon.com/Yontefdike-Teg-Song-Jewish-Holidays/dp/B003HEVOHO)

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Chana Mlotek.

This excerpt is in English.

Chana Mlotek was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922. Chana died in 2013.

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This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.

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