The Klezmatics

Klezmer has always been subject to an almost Talmudic flurry of argument, its form and musical structure beset by an impolite influx of transnational styles. This Yiddish wedding music has also been a paradox, occupying a central space in Jewish communities though performed by traveling musicians, the exiles of an exiled people. And though riotously celebratory in nature, klezmer nonetheless gravi...