Rescued: The Lost Treasures of Klezmer

1. The Expedition

As Jewish Eastern Europe crumbles, ethnographer S. An-sky races to save klezmer music. His recordings and notebooks barely survive the 1900s, landing deep in a Soviet archive. This is the story of their rescue. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis.

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