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.

David Werdyger's Oral History

David Werdyger, Hasidic khazn (cantor) and solo singer, was interviewed by Hankus Netsky on July 3, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York. This interview is partially in Yiddish.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish and English.

David Werdyger was born in Poland in 1919. David died in 2014.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Singing for Yankel Talmud

1 min 12 sec

First Day in America: David Werdyger Remembers A Gift From the varshever (Warsaw) rebbe

1 min 10 sec

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