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.

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Jeff Warschauer describes growing up in a non-religious family and his interest as a teenager in Jewish topics. He then "filled in the gaps" in his Jewish knowledge when he began to play Jewish music.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jeff Warschauer.

This excerpt is in English.

Jeff Warschauer was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1959.

This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Finding a balance

1 min 52 sec

A Personal Connection to Klezmer Music

2 min 34 sec

"Jewbilly"

1 min 52 sec

Playing My Own Music

1 min 38 sec

'It's Some Kind of Tikkun Olam (Healing of the World)': Resolving a Klezmer Controversy

2 min 3 sec

Filling the Spiritual Gap

2 min 19 sec

Non-Jews and Yiddish

1 min 1 sec

The Vertical Shtetl: Boston's Organized Housing For the Jewish Elderly

1 min 57 sec

"Study for study's sake"

2 min 7 sec

Madly in Love: Meeting My Future Wife at KlezKamp

2 min 36 sec

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