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 Songs My Mother Sang

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Robert Feder, z"l—attorney, native Yiddish speaker, and longtime Yiddish Book Center member—sings portions of the Yiddish songs "Shlof mayn kind (Sleep, my child)" and "Rozhinkes mit mandlen (Raising and almonds)"—he used to hear his mother sing.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Robert Feder.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Robert Feder was born in New York, New York in 1930. Robert died in 2017.