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.
"There are No Characters like that Anymore": A Tenor's Spontaneous Train Song
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Cantor Jack Mendelson, New York cantor and recording artist, tells a hilarious story about a train ride to a gig when the group created a song to convince the conductor to pull over.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Cantor Jack "Jackie" Mendelson.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.