Jordan Kutzik in the Jewish Daily Forward, November 2015, told us of a discovery of early klezmer music that had “lain in the EMI Music Archives in Hayes, England, untouched for many decades”
He pointed out that klezmer recordings were rare, and what existed nowadays was in the hands mainly of academics or musicians so that this discovery allowed the general public to be able to hear the early music that had been recorded in the Russian Empire
Amongst all the dances and songs in this discovery was one called “606 Dance”, recorded in Odessa, celebrating Preparation 606, a treatment for syphilis.
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