News & Events
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.
How To Support The Klezmer Institute
Please support the Klezmer Institute 2020 Fundraising Appeal.
Announcing The Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project
The Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project (KMDMP) is an international digital humanities project to make materials collected by Zinovy Kiselgof during An-ski Expeditions and the Makonovetsky Wedding Manuscript—long-preserved in the Vernadsky National...
Field Work In Focus—Series 1: Collecting Minority Musics in Central & Eastern Europe
About the SeriesMuch of the European klezmer canon was collected and curated in the early twentieth century by Magid, Kiselgof, Beregovski and other members of the Russian Jewish folklore movement, but important field work continued from the 1980s through to the...
10/01/2020 — Project Initiatives & Website Updates
10/01/2020 Announcing Project Initiatives and Website Update Decades of scholarship, documentation, and oral transmission have preserved and furthered the vibrant expressive culture of the Ashkenazic Jews. Building on this work, the Klezmer Institute was founded in...
10/18/2019 Ashland, OR — Mayn Shtetele Beltz: An Evening of Moldavian Klezmer Stories
10/18/2019 Ashland, OR — Mayn Shtetele Beltz: An Evening of Moldavian Klezmer Stories Join "Indecent" accordionist Christina Crowder for an evening of music, singing and stories from her Fulbright field work in Romania and...
3/15/2020 — Seattle, WA. Creating Ashkenazic Dance In The Wild: A Workshop for Musicians, Dancers, and Dance Leaders.
3/15/2020 — Seattle, WA. Creating Ashkenazic Dance In The Wild: A Workshop for Musicians, Dancers, and Dance Leaders. This is a two part workshop with klezmer accordionist Christina Crowder for musicians and dancers who want to dig deeper into the mechanics of playing...
Announcing the Klezmer Institute
The Klezmer Institute was founded in the fall of 2018 to advance the study, preservation, and performance of Ashkenazic Jewish expressive culture through research, teaching, publishing and programming. Klezmer Institute projects will build on previous scholarship to...
