A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden. - 1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.

Ben Gailing, Dave Tarras, Hankus Netsky, Henry Sapoznik, Leon Schwartz, members of Kapelye and the Klezmer Conservatory Band

Originally produced by New Day Films in 1987.

For nearly a thousand years, klezmer music had been part of the celebration of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Immigrants brought it to America, where it intersected with the Yiddish theatre and jazz. Yet klezmer was virtually extinct by the 1970s when some young musicians went looking for their cultural origins in the vast American musical landscape. Tracking two groups of brilliant young musicians, Kapelye and the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and containing rare footage of the elder immigrant musicians they learned from, "A JUMPIN’ NIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN" is the first film to document the klezmer revival. Originally released in 1987 and re-released in 2021, it tells the story of 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants restoring their cultural legacy: a very American story.


Mode of access: World Wide Web.


In English

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