{"id":21527,"date":"2014-10-08T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=21527"},"modified":"2014-10-08T08:39:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T12:39:32","slug":"german-klezmer-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/german-klezmer-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"KLEZMER GOY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m a<\/strong><\/span> German klezmer musician. Hold your questions. Here are the answers:<\/p>\n

I live in Berlin. My aunt once told me — she was drunk — \u201cWhy do you play that crap? You\u2019re German!\u201d<\/p>\n

I play every year Kristallnacht commemorations, where there is always at least one Jew who comes up to me and says, “Are you Jewish?\u201d\u00a0 I say no, and he\u2019s says, \u201cYou have to be!\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes I tell the person my grandfather was Romanian,\u00a0 just to move on.<\/p>\n

I also<\/strong> <\/span>play jazz and funk (Vulfpeck<\/a>).\u00a0 I have played even for Orthodox Jews in the States, but they don\u2019t thrill too much to my jazz music.<\/p>\n

\"klezgoy\"<\/a>I play reeds — saxophone and clarinet.\u00a0 I don’t try to be Jewish.\u00a0 I never wanted to be Jewish or not<\/em> Jewish. Somebody said, \u201cYou\u2019re not really a Jew unless at one point in your life you didn\u2019t want to be a Jew.\u201d \u00a0 I don’t know about such things.<\/p>\n

In the Middle West, in Ohio, an old Jew called me a “poseur.”\u00a0 I had to look that\u00a0 up.\u00a0 He was a klezmer musician.\u00a0 Maybe he<\/em> was a poseur.\u00a0 The middle of the United States is very red, I think.\u00a0 Only he could play klezmer, I think he means. If people think I’m a bad person for playing music from somewhere else, then they know damn little about music.<\/p>\n

I’m a<\/strong><\/span> klezmer musician.\u00a0 Forget about the German part for a second.<\/p>\n

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Check out <\/em>Magdalena Waligorska<\/em>‘s nonfiction book <\/em>Klezmer\u2019s Afterlife<\/a>, about the klezmer scene in Berlin and Cracow. Forty-three percent of this post is lifted from the book.
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File this under KlezFiction and Fake Profiles.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a German klezmer musician. Hold your questions. Here are the answers: I live in Berlin. My aunt once told me — she was drunk — \u201cWhy do you play that crap? You\u2019re German!\u201d I play every year Kristallnacht commemorations, where there is always at least one Jew who comes up to me and says, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles","category-klezfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21527"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21577,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21527\/revisions\/21577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}