From Klezmer to Clerks From Klezmer to Clerks by Jeff Wasserman '99 Riffing off some articles in the last issue of the Dispatch, I give you my impressions of the American Jewish artistic movement, some of whose members were born decades after the Holocaust, yet are still profoundly influenced and guided by their knowledge of it. I have yet to find an American Jew who isn't in some way the product of the Tribe's recent history.
History is a progression, right, of smaller, more mundane events packed between Big Events.
The Holocaust was a Big Event. A Downright Huge Event. Let me tell you about something I saw a few years ago. I was in New York City with a friend for the day. We heard about this free concert in Central Park, so we went over to check it out.