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Great Holocaust Documentary. The filmaker goes to Poland in search of one of the last known Klezmer musicians who is still living in Poland, once the heart of Jewish Klezmer music. What this film does so well is put a human cultural face behind the grim statistics of the Holocaust.
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- Documentary, Music
- Yale Strom
- 1994-04
Meet the last klezmer to have grown up in the tradition and who is still performing and teaching his art to mostly gentiles in Poland today. Leopold takes a ...
- 3 min
- 5.5K
- familyhx
Years after the Holocaust, survivor Leopold Kozlowski lives in Poland, and is one of the few remaining experts in the Klezmer tradition of music, one played predominantly by the Eastern...
- Yale Strom
- Documentary
- Leopold Kozlowski
Dec 31, 1994 · Director Yael Strom follows Kozlowski as he travels back to his village in the Ukraine, where he visits his father's grave and speaks about his relatives who perished in the Holocaust. Strom honors Kozlowski's life as a teacher, musician and survivor.
May 10, 2019 · Leopold Kozlowski, the last active musician to have grown up playing traditional Jewish music in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, died March 12 in Krakow at the age of 100.
The last Klezmer - Leopold Kozlowski: His Life and Music. Copy Link. Documentary. 85 min. Director and script: Yale Strom. Yale Strom, active participant in the American klezmer revival, researched the life of Leopold Kozlowski, the last active klezmer musician in Poland.
Leopold Kozlowski, His Life and Music A film seen around the world, by millions of people... Learn about Jewish life in Eastern Europe before World War II. See the last Klezmer musician alive today to have grown up in Jewish culture before the Holocaust and to still be teaching, performing, and composing Klezmer music in Poland today.
