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This week on Cafe International with Dan Rosenberg, we speak with Daniel Hamar of the group Muzsikas about what it was like performing Hungarian folk songs in Eastern Europe under communist rule when some politicians feared folk music could be subversive and lead to nationalist revolutions. And later, we’ll hear how Muzsikas traveled to Transylvania in the 1990s to research Jewish music – songs nearly lost to history after Transylvania’s Jewish community was massacred during the Holocaust. Muzsikas collaborated with elderly Romani musicians from the region who still remembered pre-war Jewish songs.