Klezmer activist Christina Crowder finds something personal in the music she helped return to the klezmer community. Plus, a klezmer concert in a church. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis.

Image from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.

A fateful Tokyo subway ride delivers hundreds of tunes to klezmerland, transforming the genre—and kugel etiquette. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis. 

Image from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.

As Jewish Eastern Europe crumbles, ethnographer S. An-sky races to save klezmer music. His recordings and notebooks barely survive the 1900s, landing deep in a Soviet archive. This is the story of their rescue. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis.

Image from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.

From Arc magazine comes the story of a groundbreaking moment in klezmer music. 

Show art by Giovanna Truong.