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Yiddish World Why music scholar Henry Sapoznik returned a painting he won at a raffle
'The Wedding' is one of hundreds of paintings that self-taught Jewish artist Mayer Kirshenblatt did of his hometown, Opatow
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Yiddish World The experimental sound of the Hutchins Consort meets klezmer and Jewish music of the Renaissance
A set of scientifically designed violins so rare that most are in museums demonstrated their unique properties at a California concert
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Music A new album blends klezmer and American folk — and is at home in both
‘In Der Heym/Down Home’ shows how two musical styles have a lot in common
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Yiddish World They’re your cool friend’s favorite funk band. Their frontman released a klezmer album
Yiddishe Pirat, the project from Vulfpeck’s Jack Stratton, revives klezmer music for a younger, funkier audience
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Yiddish אַ פֿאַרגלײַך צווישן דער געשיכטע פֿון כּלי־זמר־מוזיק און דער אַנטוויקלונג פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַךComparing the history of klezmer music with the development of the Yiddish language
דער מוזיק־פֿאָרשער זאבֿ פֿעלדמאַן זעט טערקישע, גריכישע, רומענישע און ציגײַנערישע השפּעות אויף דער כּלי־זמר־מוזיק
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Culture Three months after mass shooting, klezmer band returns to Highland Park
When a shooter opened fire on a Fourth of July Parade, a video of people fleeing past the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band went viral
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Music Meet the musicians turning old Yiddish poems into 21st-century songs
Two new albums reimagine a centuries-old tradition of adapting poetry to music
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Culture The Extraordinary Life Of Leopold Kozlowski, The Last Klezmer Of Galicia
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Leopold Kozlowski, the last active musician to have grown up playing traditional Jewish music in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, died March 12 in Krakow at the age of 100. A world-renowned expert on Jewish music and a teacher who trained generations of klezmer musicians and Yiddish…
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