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.

Elvis: "He was a perfect southern gentleman."

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Miriam Bienstock, z"l, co-founder of Atlantic Records, in discussing the celebrities she's met over the course of her record industry career, remembers Elvis Presley as "the perfect Southern gentleman."

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Miriam Bienstock.

This excerpt is in English.

Miriam Bienstock was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923. Miriam died in 2015.