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.

Cookie Segelstein's Oral History

Cookie Segelstein, klezmer violinist, was interviewed by Nina Pick on July 18th, 2019 in Weimar, Germany.

This interview was conducted in English.

Cookie Segelstein was born in Kansas City, MO in 1958.