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Klezmer Music from the Former Hungarian Empire

December 1, 2014, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Posted InInternational Academic Initiatives and Study Abroad

The Global Education Center is hosting a series entitled the Rescue in Budapest to commemorate the life of Raoul Wallenberg.

Yale Strom and his Hot Pstromi band perform traditional klezmer tunes from various regions of the Austro-Hungarian empire. This "Hungarian Jewish" music was especially popular in eastern Hungary, the Carpathian Mountains and Transylvania before World War II, and experienced a revival many years after the war.