Yiddish Folksingers on Miami Beach

Profiles of our colorful and suntanned Jewish elders on the beach, in hotel lobbies and in nursing homes. This piece raises questions about the transmission of Jewish musical tradition and contemplates the passing of the last generation of Yiddish speakers.
Joel saxe teaches video in the Art Department at Greenfield Community College and crouses in oral history, ethnicity and popular culture at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and Mount Holyoke College. He has conducted a long-term oral history and visual documentation project on Yiddish culture and Jewish radicalism in New York and Miami Beach. As a media activist, he is involved with community media literacy projects.
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