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The travelling guild musician who played instrumental musical for the wedding celebrations of the largely Yiddish-speaking, mostly Ashkenazi Jewish communities of Eastern Europe was called a klezmer. With a tradition going back to the Middle Ages, such musicians were sometimes viewed as a disreputable (e.g. a partly nomadic community with...

The travelling guild musician who played instrumental musical for the wedding celebrations of the largely Yiddish-speaking, mostly Ashkenazi Jewish communities of Eastern Europe was called a klezmer. With a tradition going back to the Middle Ages, such musicians were sometimes viewed as a disreputable (e.g. a partly nomadic community with their own private language, klezmerloshn) but essential part of the...