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Klezmer Guitar
There seem to be a lot of questions and not a lot of resources on Klezmer guitar and where/how it fits into the music given it first appears…
Rom Archive
So, you’ve been searching around Klezmer.com? Check out Rom Archive! Rom Archive is a digital museum funded by the German Federal Cultural F…
Klezmer Scales
Freygish The most common Major mode of Klezmer is the Freygish scale (also called Ahava Raba). D freygish can easily be, and is often, writt…
COMPLEAT KLEZMER
The famous book of songs and analysis by Henry Sapoznik & Pete Sokolow is available as a pdf via archive.orgenjoy! https://archive.org/detai…
Jewish FakeBook (Sheet Music)
Want to learn more tunes? https://archive.org/details/250001782-the-jewish-fake-book-pdf/page/n3/mode/2upBook is a collection by Velvel Past…
Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project from The Klezmer Institute
"Manuscripts from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine previously unavailable to klezmer musicians and scholars. The Kiselgof-Makonove…
Bulgarian Fakebook
https://bgko.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Fakebook_Bulgarian_Music.pdf 2007 Hans Baken Amsterdam NLContents • Aleni Zvevdi • Bavno Oro •…
Aheym - Going Home
May 20, 2008, the AHEYM research team travels to the community center of Balta, Odessa, Ukraine to interview Rakhila Shmulevna Klimenko, bor…
Canary Records
Canary Records is the wealth of the turn of the 20th century we’ve all been searching for run by the experimental composer, producer, and lo…
Naftule Brandwein: Discography
Naftule Brandwein: American Repertoire Between 1870 and 1915, enormous numbers of Ashkenazim were displaced from Europe to New York (Ellis I…
Who are the bands in Latcho Drom?
Since first watching it nearly 10 years ago, “Latcho Drom” has remained one of my favorite films that consistently gives new insights each t…
Zoltan Kodaly
I. Zoltan KodalyZoltan Kodaly was born in 1882 in Kecskemét, Hungary. At the time of the Russo-Turkish war, the second industrial revolution…
O Dewel
It was almost a decade ago that I first heard "O Dewel," a Romani gospel piece sung in a variation of the macro-language Romani, as spoken b…
Article for the intro learner to Yiddish!
What is the furthest away?Like all good Jewish anecdotes, this one starts with me waiting for a Bagel at a Klezmer festival. The person in f…
Hanko Ferenc and Boros Lajos
Tcha Limberger recovered and digitized a rare and revered recording in the cannon of Magyar Nota so that we may all have the pleasure to hea…
Myrtle Street - What’s in a Name?
Having played clarinet in Kugelplex for over 20 years, I dreamt of one day being in a band whose name wasn't a pun. I inherited the Kugelpl…