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Klezmer presents 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. Netsky defines what klezmer music is, how ...

Hankus Netsky is a member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston, and is director of its Jewish music ensemble.¿ He is also the founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internally renowned Yiddish music ensemble.¿ He has collaborated, performed and recorded with many well-known artists, including Itzhak Perlman and Theodore Bikel.