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.

Teaching the Klezmatics

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Adrienne Cooper z"l describes meeting and teaching early members of the Klezmatics at the YIVO summer program.

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 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

Studying Yiddish

2 min 45 sec

"I Sunk into the YIVO"

2 min 17 sec

"It was really the source of my Jewish literacy." (Religious Education)

1 min 32 sec

KlezKamp provides model of "living Jewish Culture"

3 min 21 sec

Adrienne Cooper Finds a Mentor

1 min 29 sec

"A Thin Thread": Song-Teaching Project in Former Soviet Union

6 min 27 sec

Adrienne Cooper's Advice to Future Generations

4 min 43 sec

Creation of KlezKamp

3 min 34 sec

Her Daughter at Weinreich's Desk

2 min 19 sec

Generations of Yiddish Song

3 min 26 sec

Growing up in the Oakland Jewish Community

1 min 30 sec

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