“Klezmer: Music, History & Memory”
“Klezmer: Music, History & Memory” presented by
The Jewish Music Forum: A project of the American Society for Jewish Music
Walter Zev Feldman, Visiting Professor of Music, NYU Abu Dhabi
Discussants: James Loeffler, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia and
Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College
Wednesday, December 14th at 7pm
at The Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NY
Emerging in 16th-century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature of the largest transnational Jewish community of modern times. This talk and roundtable discussion celebrates the recent publication of Feldman’s book, Klezmer: Music, History and Memory (OUP, 2016), the first comprehensive study of both the musical structure and the social history of the klezmer.
Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, and a performer on the klezmer dulcimer cimbal (tsimbl).
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