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TALK | The Essential Klezmer, with Seth Rogovoy | Thursday, July 7, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EDT
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YIDSTOCK 2022 | Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock’s artistic director and author of The Essential Klezmer takes the audience on a multimedia journey through klezmer, from Old World shtetls to New World stages.
WORKSHOP | Instrumental Klezmer, with Brian Bender | Saturday, July 9, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT
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YIDSTOCK 2022 | An instrumental workshop for aspiring klezmer musicians, taught by trombonist/keyboardist Brian Bender of the Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble. Click to read more and purchase tickets.
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
2012-08-26
Benzion Miller
2012-06-13
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.
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.
YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music Brings Some of Klezmer's Biggest Stars to the Virtual Stage
YIDSTOCK 2021 will be a 75-minute program featuring Yiddish songs of social justice [May 20, 2021]
From Hip Hop to Klezmer
Socalled demonstrates his sampling process
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
This special, ninety-minute video retrospective from the Yiddish Book Center celebrates the history of the KCB.
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
Description
Klezmer musician Michael Winograd talks about how a Klezmer revival happened, but is not still happening.
דערצײלונגען
אבֿרהם רײזען
Dertseylungen
אלע ווערק
באַנד: 27
Ale ṿerḳ
Volume: 27
Nyu Yorḳ : Sholem-Aleykhem folḳsfond, 1917
December 2019: Handpicked
Zeke is a Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow and musicology doctoral student. After delving into his selections, scroll down to read a short interview with Zeke about his choices.
אלע ווערק פון שלום עליכם
באַנד: 15
שלום עליכם
Ale ṿerḳ fun Sholem Aleykhem
Volume: 15
Buenos Ayres : Iḳuf, 1952
Weekly Reader The Past and Present of Yiddish Music
April 3, 2022 - Put on your favorite klezmer album while you enjoy the warmer weather and delve a bit deeper into the story of this fabulous genre.
"My First Jewish Novel, Stempenyu"
The prologue and first chapter of Sholem Aleichem's classic Jewish romance, newly translated by Daniel Kennedy.
A Yiddish Salon in the Bronx
Singer and poet Bertha Kling created a haven for fellow immigrants and Yiddish writers. [Posted March 5, 2020]