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.
Studying Music in Vienna with Joseph Schmidt's Teacher
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Cantor Moshe Kraus, Holocaust survivor and first chief cantor of the Israel Defense Forces, recalls studying in Vienna with the same teacher who taught the famous Austrian-Jewish singer and actor Joseph Schmidt.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Kraus.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.