Freedom, resilience and strength are all universal themes associated with Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the ancient Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt. The fact that it is also a
In mid-January, Esther Shapera was surprised and delighted to discover that a concert of Eastern European klezmer music, thought lost for nearly a century, would be performed at Beth El
Most modern American fans of klezmer, an instrumental musical tradition of Eastern European Ashkenazic Jews, expect certain sounds and melodies when they attend a klezmer concert, typically the cadences and