Klezmer

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 Frank London, standing, works with a team of musicians at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, New York, May 22, 2024.
 THE INDUSTRY MUSEUM creates the perfect venue for the inspiring rhythms of Safed-based Maqamat.

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 Israel old Safed

Galilee dreaming: Safed’s venerable Klezmer Festival turns 36 with a stellar lineup

 THE L’ENSEMBLE BALAGAN troupe.

France's L'ensemble Balagan brings klezmer music to Israel


An ahead-of-its-time klezmer album will be performed live for the first time

Recorded by the klezmer virtuoso Dave Tarras and a handful of respected NY jazz players, the record was a groundbreaking mix of traditional Eastern European Jewish dance music & jazz big band sound

Festival klezmer 2013, Safed

Singer-songwriter Erez Lev Ari brings cultured offerings to Klezmer Festival

Lev Ari performed alongside Nathan Goshen, Tislam and Idan Haviv.

 BALLADEER EREZ Lev Ari.

Klezmer festival returns to Safed for 35th year next month

The festival will include dozens of unique performances and activities celebrating the instrumental musical tradition of Ashkenazi Jews.

Avrum Lieb Burstein plays the accordion with a klezmer band at Burstein’s Krechme

‘Gazpacho Police’ is now an original klezmer song

Jokes, memes and snarky tweets have circulated across the internet following Marjorie Taylor Greene's blooper.

 Michael Winograd, klezmer composer and clarinetist, recently poked fun at Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene's viral "Gazpacho police" comment by turning it into the title of a klezmer song.

Felicja Blumental International Music Festival comes to Tel Aviv

Gilad Harel pays tribute to Benny Goodman at the festival next week.

GILAD HAREL: If you don’t enjoy what you are doing, as a musician, you may as well go and work in an office.

12 real-life Jerusalem based love stories retold through dance

"We are going through a difficult period and there is no doubt that love is a point of light that should be celebrated."

Miriam Engel and her husband Sergei perform a dance rendition of Boaz Shiraz's marriage proposal to his now wife Michal.

Holocaust survivors, families celebrate Jewish soul music at Yad Vashem

“Just as the Klezmer accompanied the Jews throughout the life cycle, so, too, did humor accompany this people in its joys and troubles – even in the darkest moments,"

he 'Mashiv Haruach' concert took place at the Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem

Busy Heddy

CHILD HOLOCAUST survivor Rena Quint, who frequently talks to visiting groups at Yad Vashem, and also hosts groups in her own home under the auspices of Shabbat of a Lifetime and other organizations.

Rena Quint points out bullet holes on the wall of what once was the Piotrkow Central Synagogue and now serves as a library. (

Music from the heavens

There is nothing more Jewish in the sonic department than klezmer music, right?

MOUSA BERLIN

The first ever klezmusical

The Budapest Operetta Theater blends contemporary klezmer music with the drama of the theater in ‘Wedding Dance’

‘Wedding Dance’

Fill the nights with Jewish music

The series, supported by the Jerusalem Municipality, is promoted by the Amuta “Spectacular World of Jewish Music."

NAOR CARMI is one of the festival’s featured performers.