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.

1940 New York's World Fair

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Yehudi Wyner - an American composer, music educator, pianist and conductor and the son of Lazar Weiner (a Yiddish composer) - remembers how he, then a little boy, received the autographs of Thomas Mann and Maurice Maeterlinck during the World Fair in New York because his father, Lazar Weiner, was performing there.

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

This excerpt is in English.