Reviews
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“The earth is soaked with sweetness”: A Review of Levyosn’s Dream
Levyosn’s Dream is a model for what translators can do in musical community.
Jun 19, 2026
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Past-continuous: New Sound Worlds of Klezmer: A Review of Jake Shulman-Ment and Abigale Reisman’s Two Strings/Tsvey Strunes and Zoë Aqua’s In a Sea of Stars
These two new releases stand out as shining achievements of the second wave of the American klezmer revival/revitalization movement.
Feb 06, 2026
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Review of New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century by Joel E. Rubin
Despite the shifting status and popularity of this Ashkenazi instrumental music and its musicians, Joel Rubin is, surprisingly, the first researcher to devote serious and sustained attention to one of its most important and productive periods: New York in the 1920s, and in particular the remarkable—and nowadays canonical—recordings of its two best-known and most influential figures, Dave Tarras (1895/7-1989) and Naftule Brandwein (1884-1963).
Jan 26, 2022
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Review of Convergence, an Album of Multi-Diasporic Musical Longing by Anthony Russell and Veretski Pass
Anthony Russell, in collaboration with Veretski Pass (Joshua Horowitz on piano, Cookie Segelstein on fiddle, and Stuart Brotman on cello), intertwines Jewish Eastern Europe folk music and African American spiritual traditions.
Nov 06, 2018