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Generations of Yiddish Song
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Adrienne Cooper z"l discusses singing Yiddish songs and lullabies to her daughter and reminisces about hearing Yiddish songs from her grandparents as a young child. She talks about how this "intergenerational conversation" influenced her music, and her final CD entitled Enchanted.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Adrienne Cooper.
This excerpt is in English.
Adrienne Cooper was born in Oakland, California in 1946. Adrienne, z"l, died in 2011.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
Other video highlights from this oral history
Generations of Yiddish Song
3 minutes 26 seconds
Adrienne Cooper Finds a Mentor
1 minute 29 seconds
"A Thin Thread": Song-Teaching Project in Former Soviet Union
6 minutes 27 seconds
Adrienne Cooper's Advice to Future Generations
4 minutes 43 seconds
Creation of KlezKamp
3 minutes 34 seconds
Her Daughter at Weinreich's Desk
2 minutes 19 seconds
Growing up in the Oakland Jewish Community
1 minute 30 seconds
Studying Yiddish
2 minutes 45 seconds
"I Sunk into the YIVO"
2 minutes 17 seconds
Teaching the Klezmatics
1 minute 48 seconds
"It was really the source of my Jewish literacy." (Religious Education)
1 minute 32 seconds
KlezKamp provides model of "living Jewish Culture"
3 minutes 21 secondsMore information about this oral history excerpt
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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