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.

Stories From the Recording Studio with Lubavitcher Hasidim

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Helen Stambler Latner, z"l, New York City high school English teacher, advice columnist for the Jewish Week, shares amusing stories of being in the recording studio with Hasidic musicians, including waiting for them to do a l'chaim (have a drink) before beginning, and their reactions when ballet dancers walked in from the studio next door.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Helen Stambler Latner.

This excerpt is in English.

Helen Stambler Latner was born in New York, New York in 1918. Helen died in 2016.