5. “All My Life a Musician”: Ben Bazyler, a European Klezmer in America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE. ROOTS
6. 1. American Klezmer: A Brief History 13
7. 2. Klezmer-loshn: The Language of Jewish Folk Musicians 24
8. 3. Di Rusishe Progresiv Muzikal Yunyon No. 1 fun Amerike: The First Klezmer Union in America 35
9. 4. The Klezmer in Jewish Philadelphia, 1915–70 52
10. 5. “All My Life a Musician”: Ben Bazyler, a European Klezmer in America 73
11. 6. Bulgǎreascǎ /Bulgarish /Bulgar: The Transformation of a Klezmer Dance Genre 84
12. PART TWO. OFFSHOOTS
13. 7. Sounds of Sensibility 129
14. 8. KlezKamp and the Rise of Yiddish Cultural Literacy 174
15. 9. Newish, Not Jewish: A Tale of Two Bands 187
16. 10. An Insider’s View: How We Traveled from Obscurity to the Klezmer Establishment in Twenty Years 206
17. 11. Why We Do This Anyway: Klezmer as Jewish Youth Subculture 211
18. Sources 221
19. Contributors 233
20. Index 235