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Klezmer is having a moment again. Kveller's Leah Grisham rounds up the people modernizing it: fiddler Jake Shulman-Ment, Sarah Gordon's Yiddish Princess, Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird (formed 2005; their Yiddish "Hallelujah" went viral in 2016), Isabel Frey, Basya Schechter's Pharaoh's Daughter, and the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, who never left. Klez Kamp in the Catskills is still the summer pilgrimage. Worth a playlist before the holidays. 7
Larry David has a sketch show. Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (HBO Max) drops him into American history in five-to-six-minute bits: a kvelling mother to Jonas Salk, an Orthodox rabbi opposite Ike Barinholtz's Henry Ford, and a Curb reunion with Susie Essman as Lawrence and Susan B. Anthony. Kveller's Leah Grisham picked the five most Jewish moments; the Ford sketch is the one to watch, because it is the one that isn't fully a joke. 4
