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.
Yiddish Misfits Gathered and Scattered: Reflections on the Klezmer Revival, Diaspora, and Movement
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Rachel Weston, London-based singer with a particular interest in Yiddish song, reflects on the Klezmer revival as it relates to Yiddish as dichotomous to nationalism. She describes how Yiddish is opposite, alternate, and powerful in its suggestion that culture can build from a movement not from being tied to land - a concept that is foundational to the radical, mobile aspects of the Yiddish and klezmer revival.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rachel Weston.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
