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.

We Can't Be Preserved in Amber: Change and Progress in Yiddish Music

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Elizabeth Schwartz, singer, reflects on what has changed in the Yiddish music scene since the beginning of her career, and what to expect moving forward.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elizabeth Schwartz.

This excerpt is in English.