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.

Musical Diversity

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Klezmer musician Assaf Talmudi tries to explain why diversity in music is important.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Assaf Talmudi.

This excerpt is in English.

Assaf Talmudi was born in Petach Tikva, Israel in 1976.

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

Other video highlights from this oral history

Why there won't be a Yiddish revival in Israel

1 min 17 sec

Recordings are not enough

1 min 57 sec

Making Judaism into a Nationality

2 min 53 sec

Jewish Moldovan Gypsy music

2 min 50 sec

Connecting with Jewish folk music

1 min 57 sec

Only Hebrew Allowed

1 min 4 sec

You are Klezmer the moment you can carry just one simple tune

1 min 37 sec

Playing Jewish Music in Poland

1 min 25 sec

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