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.

A Personal Connection to Klezmer Music

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Jeff Warschauer discusses his path to klezmer music and how he came to be interested in it while studying at the New England Conservatory. He describes the vibrant klezmer scene in the 1980s at the Conservatory, and explains that he decided to become a "klezmer solo guitarist."

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

"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

"I met a kid today who believes in God!"

1 min 43 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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