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.

Yiddish Theater is a Mirror to the Jewish Soul

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Moishe Rosenfeld - Founder of Golden Land Concerts & Connections, a New York City-based booking agency for Jewish performing arts - reflects on the legacy of Yiddish theater and how theater connects contemporary audiences with Yiddish speakers of the past.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moishe Rosenfeld.

This excerpt is in English.

Moishe Rosenfeld was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1949.

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

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Zalmen Mlotek and Music at Camp Hemshekh

1 min 53 sec

Honoring the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at Camp Hemshekh

4 min 15 sec

A Concert for Sholom Secunda

2 min 59 sec

Joseph Buloff's Acting

1 min 1 sec

Bonding with the Older Generation of Yiddish Actors

1 min 24 sec

Meetings of the Hebrew Actors Union

2 min 10 sec

A Klezmer Concert Featuring Itzhak Perlman

3 min 21 sec

The Story Behind The Musical Golden Land

3 min 28 sec

I Read the News in Yiddish on WEVD

3 min 11 sec

Dora Wasserman's Work

2 min 50 sec

Let Us Carry the Torch that Has Been Entrusted to Us

1 min 57 sec

Meetings at the Workmen's Circle

2 min 12 sec

Yiddish, Art, and Friendship at Camp Hemshekh

4 min 11 sec

Yiddish and English at Camp Hemshekh

1 min 19 sec

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