The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore

by Yale Strom

Book Overview

Klezmer 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613740638
• ISBN13: 9781613740637
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"