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 Favorite Nign Learned at the Lauder Jewish Summer Camp in Poland
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Yaakov Wasilewicz, Jewish musician, sings one of his favorite nign (wordless melodies). He learned this one at the Lauder Jewish Summer Camp as a boy in Poland.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yaakov Wasilewicz.
This excerpt is in English.
Yaakov Wasilewicz was born in Czestowa in 1988.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.