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 Woman's Voice in Jewish Music
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Elizabeth Schwartz, singer, offers insight into her experience as a woman in the Yiddish music scene, and in particular her encounters with kol isha, a law which prohibits men from listening to a woman sing.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elizabeth Schwartz.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
