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.

A Case for Art with a Goal

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Daniel Galay – composer, Yiddish writer, and head of Leyvik Hoyz Yiddish Cultural Center in Tel Aviv – shares his opinion on the important role art plays in the transmission of Jewish identity and in society more broadly.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Daniel Galay.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Daniel Galay was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1945.