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Enjoy a lecture-performance about klezmer violin with Abigale Reisman on fidl and Hankus Netsky on piano, at Rockport Music’s Concert View series as performed in 2021.

In memory of Pete “Klezmer Fats” Sokolow, who died in December 2022, listen to Kenahora Klezmer Ensemble (formerly Kapelye), with Pete on piano, playing Araber Tanz. He was

What did our great-grandparents eat for breakfast? An interesting panel discussion on Eastern-European Jewish culture from The Forward.

Enjoy this video of a presentation by Ayelet Brinn on A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press. The event February

“The History of Yiddish” by Mordecai Walfish presents a broad history of the Yiddish language, with numerous hot links to enable you to learn even more.

Check out a swinging version of Abi Gezunt, performed by klezmer band Mischpoke in Hamburg, Germany.

Enjoy this animated video of the London Klezmer Quartet playing the tune Dobriden (Dawn). 

“Shirley Feeney was no schlemiel,” by Kevin Fisher-Paulson in The San Francisco Chronicle. Fisher-Paulson remembers Feeney, who played Shirley in “Laverne and Shirley,” and bemoans the