When you hear klezmer music, you know it’s Jewish. You can feel it. But why? It’s not like klezmer melodies, instrumentation, or styles are prescribed by the Torah. The answer, of course, is culture. Klezmer has been a part of Jewish culture for hundreds of years.
Listen to today’s episode of Recognizably Jewish to learn all about the history and characteristics of klezmer and how it became so deeply enmeshed in Jewish culture.
My primary source for this episode/post is Yale Strom’s The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore Paperback. If you want to learn even more deeply about klezmer, you should definitely read it.
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