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Biography. References. Itzikl Kramtweiss. Broder Kapelle, Philadelphia klezmer group, 1920s. Itzikl Kramtweiss (c. 1878 - 1958) or Krantweiss, also known by the anglicized name Isadore Krantweiss, was a Russian -born American klezmer musician and recording artist of the early twentieth century.
Oscar Zehngut (Yiddish: שיעלע צעהנגוט Shayele Tsehngut, 1874–19??) was an Austro-Hungarian violinist, Yiddish theatre arranger and recording artist. He was one of a handful of violinists to record klezmer music in Europe before World War I, as well as a number of discs where he accompanies Yiddish theatre singers.
Klezmer as we now know it was originally just referred to as Jewish music and was played by Jewish musicians in Eastern Europe for several hundred years prior to the Second World War. After the...
Klezmer (Yiddish: כלזמיר, from Hebrew: k'li zemer כלי זמר, lit. "vessels of song", meaning "musical instruments" in Hebrew; in Yiddish, "klezmer" refers to a professional Jewish instrumentalist) is a genre and type of music originating in Eastern Europe.
A scholar, teacher, and performer of Ottoman Turkish, Central Asian, and Jewish music, he was one of the pioneers of the so-called “klezmer revival,” or what he prefers to call following Mark Slobin, the klezmer revitalization of the late 1970s.
Funding information. The Klezmer Institute in Yonkers, New York, has been the recipient of two recent NEH grants. The first, a 2021 Digital Humanities grant ($47,624), supported the development of a digital archive of klezmer music including multilingual oral histories of klezmer musicians and written scores.
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Klezmer. Part of the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, klezmer is the music that was played at Jewish weddings and other communal ceremonies in the Old World of Eastern Europe leading up to the Second World War.
