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.

Meyer Leifer's Oral History

Meyer Leifer, Rabbi and cantor, was interviewed by Nina Pick on June 18th, 2019 in New York, NY.

This interview was conducted in English.

Meyer Leifer was born in Lower East Side in 1932.

Artifacts related to this oral history