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.
Zalman Mlotek, The "Cool" 'Shule' Music Teacher who Inspired a Broadway Singer
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Joanne Borts—Broadway singer and Yiddish activist—recalls getting the opportunity to sing with famous Yiddish singers and actors as a child because of her Hebrew School music teacher.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joanne Borts.
This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
