Klezkamp

KlezKamp is the world's oldest and largest program dedicated to the continuity of traditional Yiddish folk culture.

Founded in 1985 by ethnomusicologist and award winning record and radio producer Henry Sapoznik,^[1] the program was designed to create an innovative and intensive environment where senior practitioners of the Yiddish folk arts—klezmer music, Yiddish song, Yiddish language, literature and poetry, the culinary and visual arts—pass on their life skills to newer generations.

Held every December at a hotel in New York's historic Catskill region, it attracts some 500 people from around the world who come to study with a veritable "Who's Who" of contemporary Yiddish life and culture.

References

↑ KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program(www.klezkamp.org)

External links

Living Traditions. Living Traditions is the organization that funds KlezKamp annually.

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