Klezmer Institute Inc

About Klezmer Institute Inc

Klezmer Institute is a digital-first organization founded to support Ashkenazic expressive culture through research, teaching, publishing, and programming. Ashkenazic expressive culture encompasses the musical and physical expression of eastern European Jewish culture through music, song, and dance. Klezmer Institute projects use digital humanities tools to define and document the unique musical heritage of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe, and to increase communication and collaboration between professional and amateur musicians, dancers, and scholars throughout the world. Klezmer Institute champions Ashkenazic expressive culture through digital preservation and contemporary performance as an important means to understand Jewish culture in the past, and as a springboard to insp