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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.
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 ...
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 European...
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.
Filmmaker Yale Strom chronicles the inspiring journey of Leopold Kozlowski, a Ukrainian-born holocaust survivor whose passion for Jewish klezmer music — a lively blend of liturgical and folk music — has kept the disappearing musical genre alive.
Summary: Yale Strom traveled to Poland to search for remnants of klezmer music (Jewish folk melodies) that survived the Holocaust, such as recordings, sheet music, and klezmer musicians. In this program he interviews and travels with Leopold Kozlowski, the last active klezmer musician trained in the original pre-war tradition.
An actor and musical consultant in Steven Spielberg's SCHINDLER'S LIST, Kozlowski is the last active Klezmer musician trained in the original, prewar tradition. This spirited documentary follows Kozlowski as he returns, for the first time in fifty years, to the Polish village where he was raised.
