Hungary’s government awarded a state honor to Frank London, a prominent American-Jewish musician and a founder of The Klezmatics klezmer band. London, a composer and trumpeter whose band in 2007 won ...

Budapest’s crumbling VII district is like a noir film. Except for a few frothing drunks, the former Jewish ghetto is now a ghost town. Only the slot machines in the Roma, or Gypsy, bars cut the ...

Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly described folk music as “the free, direct speech of the soul.” The description could not be better suited to klezmer, the infectious folk music of the Jewish culture ...

A new album grew out of a sometime New Yorker’s experience living and learning in Romania. (New York Jewish Week) – Before the Holocaust, Cluj, Transylvania’s unofficial capital, was 13% Jewish — ...

International exchange: Locals Sirius.B (pictured) and Budapest-based Szkojáni Charlatans share a love of Gypsy-Roma-klezmer music and a band member — percussionist Mattick Frick. Photo by Xavier ...

(JTA) At the Orchard Estate assisted living facility in Woodbury, New York, residents hum along to the klezmer music familiar to many Jews of their generation. The Yiddish-inflected music with roots ...

With roots in the doomed world of Eastern European Jewry, contemporary klezmer music can carry a whiff of sad nostalgia. In the right hands, however, there’s nothing morose about Yiddish party music.

Amid international criticism on Hungary’s treatment of World War II themes, the composer-trumpeter received the state honor for a project commemorating Holocaust victims. London, a composer and ...