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.

Song as Document: How Music Holds the Human Experience

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Rachel Weston, London-based singer with a particular interest in Yiddish song, explains how Yiddish and folk music inspires her because it is the documentation of the human experience.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rachel Weston.

This excerpt is in English.