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Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
""Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist - the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in the Holocaust, silenced under Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in America." "Fiddler on the Move describes a variety of approaches and perspectives for coming to terms with the highly diverse array of activities found under...
Author
Publisher
A Cappella Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the middle Ages, it came of age in the shtetl (the Eastern European Jewish country town), where "a wedding without klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears." Most of the European klezmorim (klezmer players) were murdered in the Holocaust; in the last 25 years, however, klezmer has been reborn,...
18) Klezmer!
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A child makes a music-filled visit to her grandparents' apartment on the Lower East Side. Along the way, she dances to klezmer music, connecting its Old Country beginnings to its new rockin' vibe"--
