The accordion also appears in unrabbinical evocations of Frenchiness, such as in Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris and Darren ... at every stage of klezmer music in both the Old and New ...

And then around 1900, there was a wave of Italian immigrants who brought the accordion and a lot of their music to Paris. And they kind of took over the dance halls. The accordion became the lead ...

Close your eyes, and picture someone playing the accordion. If the first image that pops into your head is an old man in a beret playing beautiful folk music in the corner of a French café, you ...