This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In the traditional Jewish betrothal ceremony (called tnoyim in Yiddish), the bride and groom barely play a role. The parents of both sides ...

Former Cal student radio host (KALX) Eric Fixler writes: This is the Oy Mendele! episode from December 2004, when we were still on KALX. It features music historian Craig Harwood and myself walking ...

On one evening last summer, Dan Horowitz found himself in the middle of rural Tennessee where his band was hired to play a wedding. Just like every good Jewish wedding, this one featured a Freylekh ...

Klezmer, the Eastern European musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews, is constantly evolving. Played by musicians called klezmorim at weddings and other celebrations, it has enjoyed a world revival ...

Jerry Lapides plays a few bars of the old klezmer wedding dance “Frailach Fun Der Chuppa,” “happiness of the nuptial canopy,” his harmonica infusing the festive song with an undertone of nostalgic ...

After the darkly sardonic The Wedding Dance of the Widow Bride, Vancouver's Geoff Berner does us a mitzvah by throwing more of a party on the celebratory Klezmer Dogs. Closing out a powerful trilogy ...

Thanks in part to madcap New York collective Gogol Bordello, the Panorama Brass Band and any number of scruffy Frenchmen Street ensembles, traditional Jewish/gypsy/Eastern European klezmer music no ...

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...