In honor of the start of Hanukkah, we have a lively holiday track from New York’s klezmer superstars, The Klezmatics. In 2006, the band won a Grammy for its album Wonder Wheel, which brought the lyrics of Woody Guthrie to life. Soon after, the band released another album of Guthrie lyrics — Happy Joyous Hanukkah — based on a series of his songs about Hanukkah, Jewish history and spiritual life inspired by his mother-in-law, Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt. Whether you’re lighting a menorah or a Christmas tree this holiday season, this is a great tune to get the entire family dancing.
25 Songs: The Klezmatics
Posted December 22nd, 2008 in 25 Songs, Klezmer, MP3s · 1 Comment
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“That Bestseller,” is a funny and sexual story about how the Bible was supposedly written by two starving meshugeneh brothers, Abie and Leyzer, 5,000 years ago. They were writers and barely anyone could read, so how could they not be starving?
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by sidney goldberg on December 28th, 2009