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.

Meeting Abe Ellstein

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Benzion Miller - world-renowned Hasidic cantor and collector and composer of nigunim (wordless melodies) - remembers singing for renowned Yiddish theater composer Abe Ellstein at age twelve.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Benzion Miller.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Benzion Miller was born in Munich, Germany in 1946.