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American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots (1st Edition) by Mark Slobin (Editor) Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-520-22718-2 / 0520227182 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22718-7 / 9780520227187 Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth |