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.

Zisl Slepovitch's Oral History

Zisl Slepovitch, ethnomusicologist, multi instrumentalist musician, composer, and Yiddish educator, was interviewed by Nina Pick on December 1st, 2018 in Brooklyn, NY.

This interview was conducted in English.

Zisl Slepovitch was born in Minsk, Belarus (then USSR) in 1978.