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A Personal Connection to Klezmer Music
Jeff Warschauer discusses his path to klezmer music and how he came to be interested in it while studying at the New England Conservatory. He describes the vibrant klezmer scene in the 1980s at the...
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'It's Some Kind of Tikkun Olam (Healing of the World)': Resolving a Klezmer...
Jeff Warschauer talks about Europeans' interest in klezmer music and playing in Krakow. He describes a Holocaust survivor's outrage that he would play klezmer music in a country where so many Jews...
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Finding a Balance
Jeff Warschauer advises the younger generation of klezmer musicians and Yiddish enthusiasts to go "broadly and deeply" into the past. He suggests that creative artists learn the rudiments of their...
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Jewbilly
Jeff Warschauer recalls his early days as a musician, and his teenage years listening to country, bluegrass and folk music. He describes his first few jobs in the Boston music world, working as a...
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"I met a kid today who believes in God!"
Jeff Warschauer describes growing up in a non-religious family and his interest as a teenager in Jewish topics. He then "filled in the gaps" in his Jewish knowledge when he began to play Jewish music.
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Filling the Spiritual Gap
Jeff Warschauer discusses the importance of Jewish music in his life. He explains that he can always almost hear a tune in his head that for him is like a "musical Golus."
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Study for study's sake
Jeff Warschauer describes his decision to become a student again and to finally attend cantorial school after putting it off for twenty-five years.
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The Vertical Shtetl
Jeff Warschauer talks about his interactions with the elderly Jewish community in Boston in the 1980s. Every Thursday evening he would go to meetings in apartment buildings where many Jews lived and...
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Playing My Own Music
Jeff Warschauer talks about the desire people have to return to their roots and his own realization that playing Jewish music could be a way for him to do this.
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Non-Jews and Yiddish
Jeff Warschauer explains why he thinks there is an interest in Jewish culture among non-Jews in Europe.
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Stretching Boundaries on Harmonica
Musician Jason Rosenblatt remembers the first time he played a nign (Jewish wordless melody) on the diatonic harmonica and the subsequent realization that it could be used for more than blues.
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Madly in Love
Musician Jeff Warschauer explains how he first saw his wife and KlezKamp and thought up a way to get to know her.
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