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"Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia" provides a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings, Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia’s Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in, and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and communal celebrations.

This event was recorded live via Zoom from the Yiddish Book Center on July 30, 2020.

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