3. Dancing in a Jewish Way
Klezmer activist Christina Crowder finds something personal in the music she helped return to the klezmer community. Plus, a klezmer concert in a church. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis.
Rescued: The Lost Treasures of Klezmer
For decades, klezmer musicians have kept traditional Jewish music alive despite war, genocide, and erasure. They’ve done so by playing a small handful of surviving songs again and again. Many more songs—a trove of tunes with the potential to redefine the genre—have sat just out of reach, in a former Soviet archive. This music was unseen, unheard, unknown. But now, newly rescued, it’s transforming the klezmer world, the people who work in it, and our picture of 20th-century Jewish life in a destabilized Europe. Rescued: The Lost Treasures of Klezmer tells the story of that music.
From Arc magazine, a publication of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.
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2. Klezmerland
A fateful Tokyo subway ride delivers hundreds of tunes to klezmerland, transforming the genre—and kugel etiquette. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis.
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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.