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.

Changes Within Klezmer: Differences Between Sensibilities

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Joshua Horowitz, Austrian musician and composer, describes some of the changes between traditional klezmer music, and more modern forms of klezmer.

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.