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Klezmer Music 1910-1942
1. Rusishe Sher - Abe Schwartz's Orchestra 2. Rumanian Doina - Abe & Sylvia…
Judah Loeb [Yehude-Leyb] Cahan
Born in Vilna, Cahan moved as a youth to Warsaw, where he frequently attended Saturday…
Michele Bolaffi
Michele Bolaffi was a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early…
Czardas (LKT)
… accompanied by the drones and strums of various stringed instruments in gypsy style. The overall structure and tempo …
Walter Zev Feldman
Ph.D., Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as…
David Finko: Russkij kompozitor v Amerike. [David Finko: A Russian composer in America.]
Finko (b.1936) emigrated to the U.S. in 1979, after having grown up in Leningrad and…
Mugham and Täsnif (mugham Shushtär)
This track includes an improvised piece (called simply Mugham), followed by a …
“Der Rebe geht schon tanzen” (chassidisch) – The Rabbi is about to Dance (Hasidic)
This is one of the best-known Yiddish songs with anti-Hassidic overtones (see Mlotek…
Pleskun (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…