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The Yiddish word klezmer referred to professional Jewish musicians. Besides entertaining for the gentile public, these klezmorim commonly played at weddings in the shtetls, close-knit Jewish communities that speckled the Eastern European landscape up until the World War II. The language of these Jews was Yiddish, and today Yiddish songs comprise a large part of klezmer repertoire. The word klezmer comes from the Hebrew words kle, vessel or instrument, and zemer which means song. Klezmer music made an appearance in the United States in the wave of immigration in the early 1900s. However, it did not take on the new soil, as younger generations of musicians and listeners rejected their roots, turning to more ´American´ musical styles. Klezmer music in America was thus quickly disappearing, only occasionally surfacing in the mainstream in the form of Jewified jazz. As the war wiped out the remnants of Yiddish life in Europe, the prospects for klezmer music seemed bleak.

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Klezmer - Wikipedia
http://tinyurl.com/36uplf

About the Klezmer Revival
http://tinyurl.com/oxvt8k

On October 19, 2000, Heiko Lehmann held a lecture on "Klezmer in Germany/Germans and Klezmer: Reparation or Contribution" at WOMEX in Berlin, House of World Cultures. Here is the complete script
http://tinyurl.com/88uwyh

The KlezmerShack
http://tinyurl.com/7mnbdk

Klezmer makes a comeback but where'd it come from anyway?
Michael Endelman
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What is Klezmer?
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The Klezmer Ring
http://tinyurl.com/85ul3t

Klezmer Music - Britannica Online
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The History of the Klezmer Music
http://tinyurl.com/7sapga

La vida de la música klezmer
http://tinyurl.com/8fy9r

Car-Free Klezmer (video)
Madison-based Klezmer mavens Yid Vicious spent a week supporting Car-Less University
http://tinyurl.com/9864cp

Why We Do this Anyway: Klezmer as Jewish Youth Subculture
http://tinyurl.com/podvkv

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Klezmer is generally instrumental, although at weddings klezmorim traditionally accompany the wedding entertainer. A typical 19th century European orchestra would have included a first violin, a contra-violin (or modified 3-stringed viola also called Groyse Fidl [Big Fiddle], Sekund, Kontra or Zsidó Bratsch, a tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), a bass or cello, and sometimes a flute. The melody is generally assigned to the lead violin, while the remainder providing harmony, rhythm and some counterpoint (the latter usually coming from the second violin or viola)

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Old Jews Telling Jokes
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Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow
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