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Resources
Online, audio and printed resources to help you with your klezmer journey.
Treasure of Jewish Culture in Ukraine (1912-1947)
Field recordings of Jewish music from ethnographic expeditions in Ukraine 1912-1930, including material collected by Kiselgof and...
FAU Judaic Collection
Klezmer recordings are part of The Recorded Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University. Access the recordings BACK TO ALL RESOURCES
The Mayrent Collection
Vintage commercial klezmer recordings and links to other audio archives. Sherry Mayrent, klezmer clarinettist, has assembled an amazing...
Classic Klezmer
A YouTube klezmer treasure trove. Listen to many of the early bands here, and discover new old artists. Visit the collection BACK TO ALL...
Collections of audio recordings
Klezmer for Hammered Dulcimer
History, sections on modes and ornamentation on the hammered dulcimer, a guide to resources, and 30 tunes graded easy, medium and hard.
American Klezmer: its roots and offshoots
Collection of essays edited by Mark Slobin, with contributions from: Hankus Netsky Robert A. Rothstein James Loeffler Michael Alpert...
12 Jewish Wedding Melodies
12 Jewish Wedding Melodies is a selection of wonderful tunes, arranged for four parts by Ilana Cravitz. The version for C...
Jewish Instrumental Folk Music
Beregovski's compendium, including many tunes collected by Kiselgof (see KMDMP). Moshe Beregovski (1962) ed. Bjorling, Alpert, Slobin...
Klezmer Fiddle: a how to guide
Published by Oxford University Press, this book (with CD) is suitable for anyone wanting new tunes, play-along parts, or ways to explore...
Klezmer School for Strings, Part 1
17 klezmer tunes plus technical exercises for the beginning classical student, by Steven Greenman. Greenfidl Music, USA, 2020 Buy the...
Klezmer: Music, History & Memory
A hugely important book by Walter Zev Feldman that contains vast amounts of information about klezmer. OUP, 2018, UK Buy the book BACK TO...
Books for learning about klezmer
Audio
Books
Titunshnayder
Clarinetist and saxophone player John Macnaughton talks about a newly-rediscovered klezmer clarinet player, whose European recordings...
Belf Off the Shelf, a talk by Sherry Mayrent
Klezmer clarinettist & music collector Sherry Mayrent talks about the recordings of V. Belf, the mysterious clarinet player who recorded...
Bulgar workshop & playalong
Learn & play along as Ilana discusses typical features of a bulgar, and demonstrates tunes with onscreen sheet music. Watch now A 'LIKE...
Yiddish music of mid-20th-century Argentina - Jevel Katz
Zulema Benveniste talks about Jevel Katz and takes us through some of his songs in Castidish. In English and Spanish / En Español y...
Klezmer in Argentina 1940s-70s - Introduction
Personalities and music from the mid-20th century Jewish music scene in Argentina. Watch the video Ilana Cravitz and Zulema Benveniste...
Sher - an illustrated talk by Ilana Cravitz
Find out more about shers, including melodies, dance description and more. Watch now A 'LIKE Klezmer Wednesday' talk, presented by the...
Joy of Freygish
Event for LIKE - the London International Klezmer Experience · Event · by Ilana Cravitz and LIKE - the London International Klezmer...
Videos
Video
The Hoffman Book - Eb edition now available!
A unique klezmer collection available for C, Bb and Eb instruments. The Hoffman Book is a new edition of the 1927 collection prepared...
Podolia Freylekhsland - Klezmer Music from Ukraine
Four books of tunes collected by Isaak Loberan, with historical introduction in English and Russian.
Kale Bazetsns and Doinas
17 kale bazetsns and 13 doynes, transcribed and edited by Cookie Segelstein and Josh Horowitz. Available for C or Bb instruments. Buy the...
Jewish Doinas
This book contains: 7 transcriptions of vintage recordings with notes by Kurt Bjorling 16 recordings from 1910-1927. Book & cassette...
12 Jewish Wedding Melodies
12 Jewish Wedding Melodies is a selection of wonderful tunes, arranged for four parts by Ilana Cravitz. The version for C...
Klezmer Accordion
14 intermediate-level characteristic klezmer pieces, transcribed and edited by Alan Bern. Universal Edition Buy the book BACK TO ALL...
Klezmer Duets for Clarinet & Accordion
10 intermediate level, traditional klezmer pieces, transcribed and arranged by Christian David & Alan Bern Universal Edition Order the...
Klezmer Duets for Violin & Accordion
10 intermediate-level, traditional klezmer pieces, transcribed and arranged by Deborah Strauss & Alan Bern. Universal Edition Buy the...
Klezmer Playbook
50 traditional klezmer tunes with online playalong tracks, transcribed and edited by Szilvia Csaranko and Susi Evans Also available for...
The Compleat Klezmer
Transcriptions of traditional klezmer tunes by Henry Sapoznik, and a CD with the originals. Tara Publications, 1982, USA Order here BACK...
International Hebrew Wedding Music
Wolff N. Kostakowsky Hundreds of great tunes from klezmer bands in the early part of the 1900s, including musicians born in eastern...
Jewish Instrumental Folk Music
Beregovski's compendium, including many tunes collected by Kiselgof (see KMDMP). Moshe Beregovski (1962) ed. Bjorling, Alpert, Slobin...
KMDMP klezmer manuscripts collection
Around 1400 manuscripts from the 1800s & early 1900s are now online as part of the Kiselgof-Makenovetsky Digital Manuscript Project....
Klezmer sheet music collections
Jewish Music Research Centre
Curated collections and a Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) shedding light on 'the historical and contemporary state of knowledge...
US Library of Congress
Sheet music, collections, recordings and more, including the Milken Archive of Jewish Music. Visit the collection BACK TO ALL RESOURCES
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Collections of musicians' papers, photos, online exhibitions and more. Access the collection via https://www.yivo.org/ or...
KMDMP klezmer manuscripts collection
Around 1400 manuscripts from the 1800s & early 1900s are now online as part of the Kiselgof-Makenovetsky Digital Manuscript Project....
Online archives with klezmer materials
Sheet music
Online archives
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