News & Events
ASEEES Internship with Anya Shatilova
Klezmer Institute is delighted to welcome Anya Shatilova for an Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) internship with the Klezmer Institute for the summer of 2022.
Community Meeting – Klezmer Archive Project
Join the Klezmer Archive Project team on Zoom for our 2022 Community Meeting! The project team has learned a lot in the last year and we’re excited to share our progress. We’d like to hear from you too! How would you use the Klezmer archive as a musician? As a researcher? As a teacher? As a student? We want to build a resource that serves the klezmer and Yiddish music community, while also creating a resource that will be an authoritative repository for further research and study.
Swiss Radio Feature (SRF) on KMDMP
Dorothee Adrian narrates the story of the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project for Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Translated from the SRF page in German ...«Klez We Can!» How today's Klezmorim make 100-year-old manuscripts sound The story of an almost...
Dispatches From Brooklyn: Jeremiah Lockwood on YNY & KMDMP
Dispatches from Brooklyn. Jeremiah Lockwood writes about Yiddish New York and the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project
Gramophone “In Focus”
Gramophone recordings gave the modern klezmer community its earliest listen to the sound of twentieth century klezmer and Jewish music. We wouldn’t have any of those sounds without the work of the collectors and discographers that we’re putting “In Focus” for this series. Join host Christina Crowder for a series of bi-weekly discussions followed by a capstone round table with a special guest.
KMDMP at Yiddish Summer Weimar
The Other Music Academy welcomes Klezmer Institute and the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript to Yiddish Summer Weimar 2021, July 21-August 21.
Klezmer Archive Community Meeting
Klezmer Archive Community MeetingYou’ve heard about the Klezmer Archive and now’s your chance to meet the team! Klezmer Institute invites you to a Community Meeting about the Klezmer Archive Project. Funded for a two-year, Phase 1 Digital Humanities Access Grant by...
Klezmer Institute Awarded NEH DHAG Grant
Klezmer Institute Awarded NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for Klezmer Archive Project.
2020 Fundraising Appeal
Today we are excited to launch our first Annual Fundraising Appeal for the Klezmer Institute, an organization solely focused on Ashkenazic expressive culture – the unique musical heritage of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe. By the end of 2020, we hope to raise $3,000 to support the Klezmer Institute’s mission.
