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.
Lazar Weiner's Music "Aimed to Overcome The Ghetto Mentality"
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Yehudi Wyner - an American composer, music educator, pianist and conductor and the son of Lazar Weiner (a Yiddish composer) - explains the driving force behind his father's work - the elevation of Yiddish music and its positioning in the context of world classics.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yehudi Wyner.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.