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.

I stopped being a corporate lawyer and devoted my life to Yiddish music

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Sruli Dresdner describes how he discovered Klezmer music as a child and why he loves it.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sruli Dresdner.

This excerpt is in English.