Yale Strom, amed klezmer musician and ethnographer, drops another book on Kids and Klezmer enthusiasts alike. The title is “The Wedding That Saved a Town” and stars, Yiske and his band of klezmer musicians who must find a groom to participate in a very unconventional wedding. It is an unusual folktale based on the old European Jewish custom of holding a wedding in a cemetery to ward off a cholera epidemic. Join Yiske and his clever horse Fairdy in this ghoulishly delightful tale.
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Yale Strom, amed klezmer musician and ethnographer, drops another book on Kids and Klezmer enthusiasts alike. The title is “The Wedding That Saved a Town” and stars, Yiske and his band of klezmer musicians who must find a groom to participate in a very unconventional wedding. It is an unusual folktale based on the old European Jewish custom of holding a wedding in a cemetery to ward off a cholera epidemic. Join Yiske and his clever horse Fairdy in this ghoulishly delightful tale.