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.

Adah Hetko's Oral History

Adah Hetko, Yiddish and English-language singer and ethnographer of Jewish music, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 16, 2017 at Yidish-Vokh in Copake, New York.

This interview was conducted in English.

Adah Hetko was born in Schenectady, New York in 1991.