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Meyer Levin
two collections of Yiddish folk sayings
The large influx of Eastern European Jewish immigrants into the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries signaled a dramatic change not just in American society as a whole but also in the existing American Jewish community
and the land that had once been reserved for the seven bands of the Lakota had been diminished
The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore by Yale Strom non-media Meyer LevinKlezmer 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
