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 Vunderlikhe Matone (A Wonderful Gift): Zmires, Songs Passed Down Through The Generations

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Avraham Fried, Lubavitcher Hasidic recording artist, reflects, in Yiddish, on the gift of music which his father and grandfather passed on to him.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Avraham Fried.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.