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.

Helen Stambler Latner's Oral History

Helen Stambler Latner, z"l, educator and advice columnist who produced albums of Hasidic music, was interviewed by Hankus Netsky on June 5, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Helen Stambler Latner was born in New York, New York in 1918. Helen died in 2016.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Melave Malkas for the Modzitzer Rebbe

1 min 9 sec

Dealing with Unfinished Records and Late Husband's Record Collection

4 min 5 sec

Getting in Trouble with the IRS

2 min 43 sec

"Ask Helen Latner": The Story Behind and Stories From An Advice Column Author

4 min 37 sec

Beginning of Recording Career with Benedict Stambler

2 min 15 sec

Recording Hasidic Music as a Woman

3 min 43 sec

Father's Separation from Hasidism

1 min 43 sec

Studying with Bella Abzug

1 min 23 sec

"Songs of the Bobover Hasidim": Tension in the Bobover Hasidic Community

2 min 45 sec

Stories From the Recording Studio with Lubavitcher Hasidim

2 min 42 sec

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