The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore by Yale Strom non-media the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever

the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters

two collections of Yiddish folk sayings

Steinberg is forced to take sides

but foods and customs from Bukhara

Visitors to the museum are invited to stand along indentations on the floor where footprints of congregants past have worn down the soft pinewood

The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore by Yale Strom non-media the Yiddish poet Abraham SutzkeverKlezmer 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