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.
Ben Zion Shenker On Getting the Rebbe's Blessing To Produce a Recording
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Ben Zion Shenker - world-renowned composer of nigunim (wordless melodies) in the Modzitzer Hasidic dynasty's tradition - recounts how he made sure to acquire a rebbe's approval before publishing one of the first recordings of Hassidic music.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ben Zion Shenker.
This excerpt is in English.
Ben Zion Shenker was born in Williamsburg, New York in 1925. Ben Zion died in 2016.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
