Exhibition Review Article — By Zoe Bell, Washington Jewish Week

DMV photographer seeks to make klezmer visible

With every click of the shutter, Lloyd Wolf captures musicians maintaining a Jewish tradition that nearly died out in the wake of the Holocaust. By Zoe Bell, January 13, 2026

Article — By Jon Kalish in The Forward

How hundreds of Forgotten Klezmer tunes have been rescued from oblivion

Thanks to a mammoth Klezmer Institute digitization project, we can hear Jewish music that hasn’t been played for generations. By Jon Kalish, December 23, 2025

Radio Feature — By Jon Kalish on The World

Old klezmer tunes saved from library in Ukraine

A century-old archive of klezmer tunes was retrieved by Ukrainian and Japanese graduate students from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, brought to New York and is now being digitized and notated. These tunes — about 1,400 of them — enlarge the klezmer repertoire four-fold. They haven’t been heard in 100 years, and in the last couple of years have been recorded by klezmer artists from around the world. Jon Kalish reports. By Jon Kalish, December 19, 2025

Podcast Series — By Arc Magazine

Rescued: The lost treasures of klezmer

For decades, klezmer musicians have kept traditional Jewish music alive despite war, genocide, and erasure. They’ve done so by playing a small handful of surviving songs again and again. Many more songs—a trove of tunes with the potential to redefine the genre—have sat just out of reach, in a former Soviet archive…. Written and produced by Robert Scaramuccia, February 14, 2025

Podcast Episode — Radiant Others with Dan Blacksberg

The klezmer Institute

How do you bring people in and get them invested in Ashkenazic Expressive Culture? The Klezmer Institute has a few ideas! In this episode I sit down with Klezmer Institute leaders Christina Crowder (her 2nd appearance on the Podcast!) and Clara Byom. They share stories about how this community fueled organization began, where they are now, and where they hope to take their work. Hosted by Dan Blacksberg. Produced by Beila Ungar. May 5, 2023

Radio Feature — SRF: Swiss Radio & Television

“Klez We CAn! How Today’s Klezmorim make 100-year-old manuscripts sound

The story of an incredible discovery. It starts in Tokyo and leads via Kiev to New York and Basel. April 1, 2022

Feature Article — Dispatches from brooklyn by Jeremiah Lockwood

Part 2: The Secret Musical Treasures of Ukraine

In contrast to the prevailing narrative that foregrounds the challenges of live performance in the COVID era, a new online archival research project has garnered success in fostering musical community and new art projects. By Jeremiah Lockwood, February 1, 2022

Podcast Episode — Radiant Others with Dan Blacksberg

Christina Crowder

Christina Crowder is an accordionist, and an important researcher of klezmer, Romanian and Moldavian musics. She’s great to play with, and great to hang out with. We go deep into her life and her time in Europe, and coming back here afterwards in the US. Hosted and produced by Dan Blacksberg. October 19, 2018