(JTA) At the Orchard Estate assisted living facility in Woodbury, New York, residents hum along to the klezmer music familiar to many Jews of their generation. The Yiddish-inflected music with roots ...
What do Itzhak Perlman, Tevye, Fagin, Betty Boop, early jazz, Yentl, Millie (as in “Thoroughly Modern”) and UC Irvine have in common? They’ve all been klezmerized! And so will Segerstrom Concert Hall ...
It was in Petaluma that Julie Egger, a violinist raised in a secular Jewish household on New York's Long Island, committed herself to the effervescent Jewish folk music known as klezmer. Since that ...
Klezmer music is like pornography and spirituality: Everyone knows it when they hear it, but few agree upon just what it is. The funny thing is, klezmer hasn’t been around very long. As a term ...
Smoked fish and klezmer are two sure signs of a happy Jewish occasion. But as author Thane Rosenbaum discovered, klezmer provides more than a soundtrack for simchas. In his 2002 novel "Golems of ...
To folks with an Eastern European background and a knowledge of Yiddish, the word “klezmer” literally means “musician.” To folks who are clueless about Eastern Europe, Jewry, or Yiddish but claim a ...
In klezmer, the fidl / violin isn't just a melody-hogging diva -- as in the traditional "fidl kapelye" (fiddle band), it can be a rhythm instrument too! Join Jon Cannon, former member of the ...
In a musical sense, Bay Area quartet Davka re-creates the deeds ascribed in legend to the mystic Jewish masters of medieval Europe, who, through incantations gleaned from the ancient Hebrew texts, ...
This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. At the Orchard Estate ...
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