I am a third generation American of Hungarian linage. I remember our Jewish hardware store owner playing this music. I loved it as a kid and glad I found Klezmer music again. Thank you God Bless
As I have been there from.my home in England I recognise the back ground of this wonderful klezmer performance in Budapest.It is the unique wonderous Dohany great synsgogue /shule of Budapest,the biggest synagogue in europe.B'H by a miracle it survived being destroyed in the living nightmare years of the Shoa/the Holocaust !
I had never been exposed to Klezmer music and am not Jewish but I do thank my college class for leading me to study the music of different cultures. Very happy to discover this music.
OMG guys, I LOVE YOU! I had the honor to see you in the play "Fiddler on the Roof" in Novi Sad (Serbia) and I am delighted with your performance, professionalism and talent :) the part between 2:52 - 7:43, took my breath away, u are FANTASTIC! Please, come and live in Novi Sad
Love this band! Most alive klezmer I have ever heard. The clarinet laughs and sobs at the same time. How I wish I could play like that violinist! L'chayim!
Thankyou so much,Some of my best friends are not jewish.I come from Holocaust survivors,it keeps me going that we jews still have none jewish friends,God protect and bless you all ! Indeed Shalom aliechem !
Love this Klezmer music, especially when the clarinet leads. The music is so emotional, it feels like the music is telling a haunting story. It sounds so sad, the Jewish history is very sad, for years and all over the world they've been persecuted. They are a strong people and I wish them safe and happy times for the future.. Shalom.
Mike as an old jew the only child of my greek born parents who were the only Holocaust survivors of our family I thank you for your touching kind words.May G-d bless you very much dear friend .Shalom aliechem !
@@Baruch-q4n Thankyou for your words. I worked in Krakow from 1998 -2000 and visited the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz many times and listened to live Klezme music and tasted traditional polish foods with a Jewish twist. I was astounded at the numbers of houses and properties obviously left vacant for many years. I was told these were owned by Jewish residents sent to the Krokow ghetto and then off to a concentration camp and never heard of again. Years later relatives suffered added insult to their devastating loss unable to even gain admission to these houses to recover family possessions as they had no proof of ownership. They remained abandoned for 55 years, some demolished due to unsafe condition. I also visited Auschwitz on a number of occasions with visitors of mine, I can't begin to describe how heart breaking that experience had on me. God Bless you and yours my online friend
What is the name of this Band? Jewish or not they are very good....hey Klezmer is now just another form of World Music! I think it is great....when we were kids we thought this music was depressing and reminded us of our grandparents suffering etc...and sounded soooo old fashioned...(as we memorized Beatle songs etc.).... but now it is gaining an audience and a new form. Great!
Shalom aliechem Laurie ,I am sephardi jewish originally from.Greece now in England.I loved the klezmer music and yiddish songs I heard even as a child in Athens and Salonika=Thesssloniki in the 1950s and 1960s.This was because our parents played this music to mark thier surviving the death camps in Poland and Germany.
Ah, this music is in my soul. My bubbe's radio played this all day while she was in the kitchen cooking. I can see how it bridges cultures, but I'm claiming it as my own.
I'm a first generation American-Hungarian (Christian) this music touched my soul. Makes me wonder if my people were Jewish at some point and converted during on of many convert or die programs. Love this music!!!
Through the violent oppression commited against us jews it is inevitable that there were indeed some jews who rather than be murdered converted to church denominations or Islam.So yes there are today none jewish people who have jewish ancestry.But of course even completely none jewish people can and do love klezmer.Fidler on the Roof was a deeply very jewish production but very many none jews loved that also.
@@Guy77ishI am jewish and live in London.There are many ways you can study in many parts of the UK about jewish history and about Judaism.I do wish you well in doing so.Solomans is certainly an unusual family name for none jewish people.Have you ever spoken to your nearest rabbi.
I love Klezmer music, but don't know where I was exposed to it. I'm not Jewish, but somewhere in our Polish family wood pile, way back, there is a Jew by the name of Bloom (sp).So perhaps it's in my soul. Dziekuje Bloom
pingomatic11 Klezmer contains many strands of music from Eastern and Central Europe, as well as lots of traditional and modern Jewish religious music. So it has a lot in common with traditional popular music of Romania, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Russia, and so on. Oh, and I should also mention gypsy music, with which it has much in common, though is distinct from it. Christian music is also related to Jewish music, if you go back far enough.
pingomatic11 Lots of klezmer artists are not Jewish. I used to play in Klezmer de l'Isle de France (around Paris), and there is absolutely no religious selection involved, anybody who loves the music can join. It is quite normal for a band member to arrive late for a Sunday rehearsal because she has been playing organ at a local mass, for example. Music brings people together.
KPOPFANBOYUK it's actually an ethno-religion. The predominent Jewish ethnicity in Europe is Ashkenazi. So "Jewish" can and does refer to both religion and blood.
KPOPFANBOYUK yes Judaism is a religion an ethnic religion for jewish people to be exact , an ethnic Jew can be a Christian a Muslim or an atheist if they want
Csodálatos !!! Hét évesen jöttem USA'ba. Viszont, Szerencsém volt, egy gyönyörű nyári estén, a szabadtéri színpadon, élvezni a Klezmer koncertet a nővéremel. Életem egyik elfelejthetetlen estéje volt. Ez lehetett 1992 be. Fájó szívvel vissza emlékszem mert ez mar minden a múltban van. De a zenétek vissza hozta a szép emléket is. Please, keep on playing this beautiful music of my ancestors. God bless you all! From Gyorgyi in the USA.
Sid anyone else immediately start thinking of a movie that this could be the score to? I'm thinking a European gangster comedy set in the early 20th century.
Don't laugh but I could see parts of this set showing up in a Quentin Tarantino movie scene...perhaps right before a big Kill Bill-esque sword fight or a seedy gangster gun battle.
Wow, the two replies below are very interesting given that this is quintessential Ashkenazi Jewish music. It shows how much cultural cross-pollination has occurred in movies.
What race you are does not derermine what you like. You would only think that IF you just like hitler was a racist. And you dont like hitler, So obviously you are not a racist
+IStehSHIT don't be so sure, the DNA seems to carry ancestral memories, where certain characteristics, traits, talents and skills seem to run stronger in some families than they do in other families, manifesting themselves even in children adopted at birth from these families.
Ha, lots of people in Europe are finding out they have Jewish roots. Especially after the Holocaust many were not told that they were in fact Jews. Loads in Poland, Ukraine, Germany but also a lot in Spain and Portugal. PS I'm not saying you are an ethnic Jew but the name Vasquez is apparently, a common Sephardic name! www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/vasquez/311/ The Sephardic Jews were from Spain and Portugal and Holland to some extent (but those would have originated in the Iberian peninsula).
Maybe that's because Klezmer and Gypsy sometimes mix and they have the same kind of buoyant yet sad feeling. Maybe you are Jewish and gypsy? lol. I would be Jewish if it was my mother was Jewish, but she was Hungarian, with talk of Grandpa being part Gypsy, just talk. From stories I have told my grown son, he said I was a "drifter" (traveler) because I rarely stayed in one place for more than a few days or months or years. So maybe Grandpa's genes skipped a generation and yours skipped even more. Interesting musings, eh?
