נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Klezmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Klezmer</span></a> and Other Displaced <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Musics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musics</span></a> of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a>” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir.</p><p>Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ottoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ottoman</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Turkish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a>, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a> dance and klezmer music. An accomplished <a href="https://babka.social/tags/musician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musician</span></a> and a respected <a href="https://babka.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> who has taught at elite universities, Feldman was a key player in the 1970s klezmer revival — and, in fact, it was Feldman who popularized the term “klezmer” to describe the traditional instrumental music of East <a href="https://babka.social/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>.</p><p>“Klezmer was still an obscure term of the Yiddish lexicon,” Feldman writes in his new memoir, “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York.”</p><p><a href="https://www.jta.org/2025/07/16/ny/he-kicked-off-the-1970s-klezmer-revival-now-hes-paying-tribute-to-new-yorks-vast-global-music-scene" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jta.org/2025/07/16/ny/he-kicke</span><span class="invisible">d-off-the-1970s-klezmer-revival-now-hes-paying-tribute-to-new-yorks-vast-global-music-scene</span></a></p>