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.

Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk Sings Miriam Nirenberg's "Dos Pastekhl" And Plays The Accordion

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Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk, accordion player and singer of Jewish music, sings a Miriam Nirenberg song using an Ukrainian open voice technique.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk.

This excerpt is in English and Russian and Yiddish.