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.

I Sang Professionally Into My Nineties

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Cantor Moshe Kraus, Holocaust survivor and first chief cantor of the Israel Defense Forces, reflects on his continuing to sing into his nineties.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Kraus.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.