Maramaros: The lost Jewish music of Transylvania

Maramures (formerly Maramaros, in Hungarian) was a Jewish community in Transylvania that, prior to World War II, had a rich musical heritage. After the Shoah, not a single one of the area's musicians returned from concentration camps. Recently, the Hungarian musicologist Zoltan Simon joined with the band Muzsikas to explore this lost repertoire - particularly the links between Hungarian and Jewish traditional music - by reviving unpublished transcriptions and tracking down Gypsy musicians who had performed with the Jews.