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Klezmer: what the word means
A short explainer: whose music this is and how the name itself is built from the Hebrew words for instruments and melody.
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What it is
Klezmer is the traditional music of Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. 1
Where the name comes from
The name goes back to the Hebrew כְּלֵי (instruments) and זֶמֶר (melody) — literally instruments of melody. 1
What is not here. This material does not describe individual genres, ensemble line-ups or performers' biographies: the revision of the source that was used does not contain them, and they have not been invented. 1
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Шығыс еуропалық ашкеназдардың музыкасы
Қазақша ·key fact
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«Инструменты напева»
Русский ·explanation
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- Original
- Русский
- Language version
- Translated from: Русский
- Translation
- Qazaqstan-Israel editorial desk (machine-assisted draft, no language reviewer)
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- not performed by a native speaker
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