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You are Klezmer the moment you can carry just one simple tune
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Assaf Talmudi explains that he likes folk music and especially Klezmer music because you can take part in it on many levels, which allows new musicians to participate.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Assaf Talmudi.
This excerpt is in English.
Assaf Talmudi was born in Petach Tikva, Israel in 1976.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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