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.

Benzion Miller Sings a Nign from his Great-Grandfather

Watch now:

Benzion Miller - world-renowned Hasidic cantor and collector and composer of nigunim (wordless melodies) - tells how his family sings a number of nigunim passed down from his great-grandfather.

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

This excerpt is in English.

Benzion Miller was born in Munich, Germany in 1946.