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Yale Strom is an American violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, photographer and playwright. Strom is a pioneer among klezmer (musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe) revivalists in conducting extensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans among the Jewish and Romani communities since 1981.
Yale Strom is a pioneer among revivalists in conducting extensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans among the Jewish and Roma communities. Initially, his work focused primarily on the use and performance of klezmer music among these two groups.
This site is about Yale Strom's art (books, films, recordings, plays, photo exhibits) based upon his ethnographic research he has done among the remnant Jewish and Romani people in Eastern Europe since the 1980s.
Aug 14, 2023 · Yale Strom has been called an accomplished violinist, documentarian, filmmaker, composer, playwright, author, lecturer, photographer and Jewish scholar and, in fact, he is all of these. The multi-talented Strom, 65, a native Detroiter, is well-known in contemporary Jewish and Yiddish culture, encompassing multiple aspects of the ...
Dec 29, 2008 · Yale Strom is not your ordinary fiddler. When he plays the violin—or fiddle, considered “the Jewish instrument” since the 19th century—sounds of Old Worlds resonate.
Yale Strom has directed nine award-winning documentary films and is the first documentary filmmaker in history to be given his own run at Lincoln Center's prestigious Walter Read Theatre.
Apr 10, 2024 · Yale Strom (violin) is one of the world’s leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer and Romani music and history. He has done extensive ethnographic research in Eastern Europe. His findings were instrumental in forming the repertoire of his klezmer band, Hot Pstromi, based in New York and San Diego.
