{"id":26188,"date":"2019-04-03T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26188"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:52:17","slug":"remembering-klezkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/remembering-klezkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBERING KLEZKAMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I couldn\u2019t<\/strong><\/span> get Alice, my wife, to go to KlezKamp. I went without her (1989). I took our kids Teddy and Lucy, and spent a lot of time in the game room and swimming pool that year. The pool was slightly larger than a silver dollar, and you had to coat yourself with skin cream, or get a rash. The kids and I went to New York City afterward. Lucy, then 5, made me carry her everywhere. We weren\u2019t going too far. We ate at Popeye\u2019s on Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>When we got back to Cleveland, my wife said, \u201cThe kids look anemic!\u201d But we ate beans and rice and lemonade at Popeye\u2019s, Alice! (The kids weren&#8217;t crazy about the borscht and herring at KlezKamp.) Alice never trusted me with food-and-kids.<\/p>\n<p>The next year Alice came to KlezKamp, and we brought the entire family, including toddler Jack. Alice took folk dancing classes but the sessions weren&#8217;t enough exercise for her. She found an indoor tennis court which was dusty and dark, like playing in a parking garage.The balls turned gray in a minute. Also, we went skiing on Christmas. I thought the slopes would be empty. No, a lot of Asians and Jews were there. Also, we sneaked into The Pines resort for ice skating. The Pines was a 1950s Borscht Belt movie. Trivia contests in the lobby.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>We <\/strong><strong>kept<\/strong><\/span> going back to KlezKamp, and every year Alice would complain, \u201cI can\u2019t believe we\u2019re going to KlezKamp again!\u201d After 12 years, we hung it up. Alice had learned all the dances, the kids were thoroughly brainwashed with klez and Yiddishkeit, and I had met all the old klez guys: Max Epstein, Felix Fibich, Danny Rubenstein, Velvel Pasternak, Paul Pincus, Leon Schwartz, Ray Musiker, Ben Bazyler, Sid Beckerman, German \u201cThat\u2019s Herman in Russian\u201d Goldenshteyn, Howie Leess and Elaine Hoffman Watts. KlezKamp was great.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26311\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26311\" class=\"wp-image-26311 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jack-and-lucy-at-klezkamp-1993-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jack, drums, Lucy, clr, Klezkamp 1993.\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jack-and-lucy-at-klezkamp-1993-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jack-and-lucy-at-klezkamp-1993.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack, drums, Lucy, clr, KlezKamp 1993.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t get Alice, my wife, to go to KlezKamp. I went without her (1989). I took our kids Teddy and Lucy, and spent a lot of time in the game room and swimming pool that year. The pool was slightly larger than a silver dollar, and you had to coat yourself with skin cream, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26188"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26316,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions\/26316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}