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 Very Particular Kind of Background that People Don’t Have Anymore: Growing Up in a Jewish Enclave in Detroit
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Mark Slobin, ethnomusicologist who has specialized in the music of Eastern European Jewry, discusses his Jewish background and describes the Jewish enclave in Detroit that he grew up in, where the egg man spoke Yiddish and the bakery had barrels of pickles on the floor.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mark Slobin.
This excerpt is in English.
Mark Slobin was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1943.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
