The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore by Yale Strom non-media two collections of Yiddish folk

two collections of Yiddish folk sayings

but foods and customs from Bukhara

Daniel Kahn: vocals

James Sturm

The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore by Yale Strom non-media two collections of Yiddish folkKlezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a 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