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.

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Helen Stambler Latner, z"l, New York City high school English teacher, advice columnist for the Jewish Week, describes her late husband's extensive record collection, which took up several basements, and discusses how they began recording Jewish music.

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.

This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.

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1 min 43 sec

Studying with Bella Abzug

1 min 23 sec

"Songs of the Bobover Hasidim": Tension in the Bobover Hasidic Community

2 min 45 sec

Stories From the Recording Studio with Lubavitcher Hasidim

2 min 42 sec

Melave Malkas for the Modzitzer Rebbe

1 min 9 sec

Dealing with Unfinished Records and Late Husband's Record Collection

4 min 5 sec

Getting in Trouble with the IRS

2 min 43 sec

"Ask Helen Latner": The Story Behind and Stories From An Advice Column Author

4 min 37 sec

Recording Hasidic Music as a Woman

3 min 43 sec

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