Yiddishe Cup

Shake your tokhes

by Sandor Slomovits

posted 1/1/2005

It's only in the last twenty-five years that klezmer music has moved into concert halls. Before that it was always dance music, played at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and parties. Occasionally it was the vehicle of Jewish comedy. Mickey Katz was perhaps the greatest proponent of that branch of klezmer: beginning in the 1940s and for the next twenty years, Katz

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