Original meaning: 'kle' and 'zemer', two words in Yiddish & Hebrew, make up klezmer, meaning vessel of song = musical instrument. A...

Yiddish is the language that klezmer musicians would have spoken. It started around the 1100s and is mainly early German, with some...

Klezmer music has its origins in Yiddish-speaking eastern European Jewish communities. They mainly lived in the countries that are now...