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Rose Bergman

Rose Bergman, retired teacher and daughter of Holocaust survivors, was interviewed by Mark Gerstein on August 10, 2012 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Rose, a former teacher, recounts growing up in Poland after the Holocaust, h...

2012-08-10

Yehudi Wyner

Yehudi Wyner - American composer, music educator, pianist, conductor and son of Yiddish composer Lazar Weiner - was interviewed by Hankus Netsky on June 14, 2011 in Medford, Massachusetts. Yehudi reminisces about visiting the Brooklyn apartment of hi...

2011-06-14

Yale (Yitskhok) Strom

Yale Strom - musical performer, artist, and ethnographic collector of Yiddish music - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 21, 2016 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in San Diego, California. Yale's father's side of the famil...

2016-12-21

Daniel Weltlinger

Daniel Weltlinger, violinist, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on May 9, 2016 in Wroclaw, Poland. Daniel was born in Sydney, Australia in 1977 and was raised in a traditional Jewish family. Daniel's maternal grandfather was a violinist and a memb...

2016-05-09

How Klezmer Defined a Community

Hankus Netsky tells us about his recent book Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia, a portrait of the folk music and traditions of the city’s Jewish community.

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

Esther Gottesman, granddaughter of Yiddish poet Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and daughter of folklorist and professor Itzik Gottesman, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on January 10th, 2017 in Brooklyn, New York. The interview focuses on her grandmo...

2012-08-26

Seth Rogovoy Talks All Things Klezmer and Yidstock

Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's artistic director and the author of The Essential Klezmer, joins us to talk about Yidstock 2019, the Yiddish Book Center's annual summer music festival.

Benzion Miller

Benzion Miller, world-renowned Hasidic cantor and collector and composer of nigunim [wordless melodies], was interviewed by Hankus Netsky in Borough Park, New York on June 6, 2012. Benzion came from a family of cantors, including his father, grandfa...

2012-06-13

YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music Brings Some of Klezmer's Biggest Stars to the Virtual Stage

From Hip Hop to Klezmer

Andy Statman and the Klezmer Revival

This week we sit down with Andy Statman, one of the founders of the klezmer revival.

Flying Klezmer

Emma Morgenstern catches up with Mark Marczyk, fiddler for The Lemon Bucket Orkestra, about their captive audience and the wacky venues the band has graced with song.

40 Years in Yiddishland: The Yiddish Book Center celebrates the Klezmer Conservatory Band

Yidstock 2013:Top names in klezmer to perform July 18-21

Yidstock program director Seth Rogovoy discusses Yidstock 2013 - from the opening concert with the Klezmer Conservatory Band to the Yidstock All-stars closing concert, and other events that will take place at Yidstock 2013.

The Klezmer Revival

December 2019: Handpicked

Weekly Reader The Past and Present of Yiddish Music