The Essential Klezmer by Seth Rogovoy Yiddish Learning Peretz: Classic and Contemporary

Peretz: Classic and Contemporary

Gorgeously illustrated and filled with fascinating historical details

Now the book is available for the first time in Romanized Yiddish

Survivors and Exiles charts a transnational post-Holocaust network in which the conflicting trends of fragmentation and globalization provided a context for Yiddish literature and artworks of great originality

a former dissident from communist-era Prague

The Essential Klezmer by Seth Rogovoy Yiddish Learning Peretz: Classic and ContemporaryArtistic director of Yidstock 2022: The Festival of New Yiddish Music Listen to our podcast with author and Yidstock artistic director Seth Rogovoy here. You can hear it in the hottest clubs in New York, the hippest rooms in New Orleans, Chicago, and San Francisco, and in top concert halls around the world. It's a joyous sound that echoes the past. It's Old World meets New World. It's secular and sacred. It's traditional and experimental. It's played