Nov 22, 2015

If he is best known for klezmer music, he has only himself to blame: he plays it brilliantly, honoring its roots without making it a museum piece.  And he leaps across genres, sometimes in a single work. He once recorded an album that charted top ten for Jewish music, funk, and jazz, and for all I know, self-help...

Nov 10, 2015

His book Animal Liberation constructed an ethical framework for the animal liberation movement. His ideas about euthanasia, altruism and global poverty have inspired both protest and acclaim - generally the latter when we spoke at the Princeton Public Library. Plus music from Jefferson Hamer.