This is the Forward’s coverage of klezmer, an instrumental music genre of Ashkenazi Jews.
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Music A Transylvanian-American klezmer blues bash right at home at a Brooklyn fiddle summit
The Neighborhood Fiddle Summit brought together a melting pot of musical influences
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Music Klezmer techno music? This 22 year-old is making it a thing
With Kleztronica, Kaia Berman-Peters blends klezmer elements with electronic dance music
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News The klezmer band playing as the bullets started flying can’t go back to Highland Park this July 4
Chicago's North Shore has spent a year mourning the victims of last year's Fourth of July parade in the heavily Jewish city of Highland Park
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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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