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.

"Rumania, Rumania"

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Peter Sokolow, a full-time professional musician active in Klezmer revival, performs Aaron Lebedeff's classic "Rumania, Rumania" and explains the Yiddish lyrics.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Peter Sokolow.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Peter Sokolow was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1940.