The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore by Yale Strom non-media Visitors to the museum are

Visitors to the museum are invited to stand along indentations on the floor where footprints of congregants past have worn down the soft pinewood

Gimpl has come to be seen as a symbol of the Jewish people in the diaspora

but foods and customs from Bukhara

and the land that had once been reserved for the seven bands of the Lakota had been diminished

James Sturm

The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore by Yale Strom non-media Visitors to the museum areKlezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the Middle Ages, it came of age in the shtetl (the Eastern European Jewish country town), where "a wedding without klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears." Most of the European klezmorim (klezmer players) were murdered in the Holocaust; in the last 25 years, however, klezmer has been