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.

The Gossamer Thread: The Value of Cultural Fieldwork

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Joshua Horowitz, Austrian musician and composer, describes being taught by Aron Saltiel, his musicological fieldwork in Austria, and Henry Sapoznik's idea of the Gossamer Thread and it's applications.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Joshua Horowitz.

This excerpt is in English.

Joshua Horowitz was born in Niagra Falls, NY in 1960.