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.

An Ethnomusicologist's Favorite Jewish Music

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Mark Slobin, ethnomusicologist who has specialized in the music of Eastern European Jewry, discusses his favorite Yiddish music.

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.