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.

Mark Slobin's Oral History

Mark Slobin, ethnomusicologist, was interviewed by Hankus Netsky on May 27th, 2016, in New York City.

This interview was conducted in English.

Mark Slobin was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1943.

Video highlights from this oral history

“Sung Poetics”: Mark Slobin on Why the World Needs to Hear Yiddish Song

2 min 49 sec

An Ethnomusicologist's Favorite Jewish Music

1 min 25 sec

Russian Songs From My Childhood

3 min 58 sec

The Place of Jewish Music in Jewish Studies

3 min 14 sec

A Very Particular Kind of Background that People Don’t Have Anymore: Growing Up in a Jewish Enclave in Detroit

2 min 11 sec

Jewish Use of Classical Music to Perform Civic and Cultural Identity

2 min 53 sec

Rare Anecdotes of Everyday Yiddish Singers

2 min 30 sec

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