Phil Alexander is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he works on Scottish-Jewish musical encounters. His monograph Sounding Jewish in Berlin: klezmer music and the contemporary city was published by Oxford University Press in 2021, and he has also published on Edinburgh salsa, Holocaust memorial silence, synagogue cantors in Glasgow, and accordions. Phil is also a busy musician, leading the band Moishe’s Bagel and performing and recording regularly with well-known UK folk and jazz artists.
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Phil Alexander
University of Edinburgh
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Review of New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century by Joel E. Rubin
Phil Alexander
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