“What Doesn’t Grow Is Dead’: How Klezmer Musicians Are Creating For A Modern Jewish World
A century after its heyday in the United States, the klezmer community continues to thrive as a small but deeply passionate group of fans and performers. But unlike klezmer classics "Hava Nagila" or the soundtrack to "Fiddler on the Roof," contemporary klezmer practitioners don’t see this music as solely for special occasions or a vestige of Ashkenazi Jewry of days…