The “history” of Klezmer is part of this website –about The Klezmorim — “the Berkeley, California band that jump-started the worldwide klezmer revival in 1975.” The website provides an easy-to-peruse chronology of the band’s history, biographies, discography, and lots of “inside stories.” With several books published recently on the history of klezmer, it will be interesting to readers to gain access to this perspective from someone who was there “in the beginning”– of the American klezmer revival, that is!
http://klezmo.com/