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.

editing my father, Lazar Weiner's work

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Yehudi Wyner - an American composer, music educator, pianist and conductor and the son of Lazar Weiner (a Yiddish composer) - talks about his father, the eminent Yiddish song composer Lazar Weiner, and the collaborative process of editing they were involved in.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yehudi Wyner.

This excerpt is in English.