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.

"Betwixt and Between" Worlds: Reflections On Never Fitting In

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Joshua Jacobson, professor of music at Northeastern University and founder / artistic director of Zamir Chorale in Boston, speaks about the social tension between his family's artistry, liberal politics and their traditional religious observance, and how this led to a feeling of being between worlds -- a feeling that was inherited by Joshua and has since been passed on to his son.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joshua Jacobson.

This excerpt is in English.

Joshua Jacobson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1948.