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Yale Strom is a director, composer, musician, writer and photographer. He was a pioneer among klezmer revivalists in conducting extensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans among the Jewish and Rom communities since 1981. Initially, his work focused primarily on the use and performance of klezmer music between these two groups. Gradually, his focus increased to examining all aspects of their culture, from post-World War II to the present. Yale Strom has become the world’s leading ethnographer-artist of klezmer. Strom has directed five award-winning documentary films (“At the Crossroads”, “The Last Klezmer,” “Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years”, “L’Chayim, Comrade Stalin!” and “Klezmer on Fish Street”) and has composed music for countless others.. He will be presenting his recently completed  documentary “A Man From Munkacs:The Gypsy Klezmer. ”

This film is being shown as part of the Raoul Wallenberg Project sponsored by the Sprague Library and Global Education.

This film-screening series, sponsored by the Film Institute at Montclair State, is a weekly program for MSU students and the public. The program features contemporary filmmakers who come to speak about their work and profession in an open forum that invites audience members to ask questions and hear personalized inside stories. Admission is free.