The Rosendorf Quartet
 the rosendorf quartet: This is a superbly well-written book, beautifully translated into English from the original Hebrew. It operates on many levels: nominally, it is about four displaced German-Jewish musicians, refugees from Hitler's Germany who find [... more]
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Jewface
From Amazon.com: Where popular music is concerned, most immigrant populations begin by looking back toward their homelands before developing styles that reflect their own take on the slow, arduous process of assimilation. Eastern European Jewish [... more]
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A Plague of Angels
Excellent historical mystery: Short of the monarch, the only person who Sir Robert Carey would heed an order from to come to London is his father Lord Hunsdon the Queen's Lord Chamberlain. Robert knows that the big city has many individuals irate with [... more]
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Yiddish American Klezmer, 1925
From Amazon.com: Known bizarrely for a time as the Jewish Benny Goodman, Ukrainian-born klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras was the relatively reliable and refined answer to the wickeder Naftule Brandwein. Born in 1897, Tarras emigrated to the United States [... more]
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Maramaros Lost Jewish Music
Transylvanian Klezmer 2: When you first hear the first notes of Maramaros, The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania, you are in for in for some treat. This is no ordinary klezmer music. The album features Hungarian Jewish music once thought lost, but [... more]
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Balamouk
From Amazon.com: The relationship between Eastern European gypsy music and Yiddish klezmer has always been slightly mysterious. As traditional "outsiders" to Christian village culture, both gypsy and Jewish musicians earned a living in the [... more]
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