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 Sweet Mouth": They Came to Me For Blessings Because of My Grandfather, Kerestirer Rebbe
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Moshe Kraus, Holocaust survivor and first chief cantor of the Israel Defense Forces, discusses how it came to be that people came to him for blessings after his grandfather, an influential Kerestir Rebbe, had pronounced he had "a sweet mouth."
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Kraus.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
