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Max, Willie and Julie Epstein were the Kings of Klezmer Music. They began their career as "The Epstein BrothersÒ 60 years ago in New York playing at the celebrations of Jewish immigrants, which often lasted for days. Their music, like their audiences, came from Eastern Europe. The songs were as often loose and joyous as they were sentimental and sad. Today, the Epstein brothers live in AmericaÍs retirement paradise, Florida. Together with their old audience, they have withdrawn to the mild climate of "GodÍs waiting roomÒ. The brothers once believed that, after the JewÍs assimilation in the "American way of lifeÒ, their neighbors were the last Klezmer generation and themselves the last Klezmer stars. But a few years ago began the revival of Klezmer music and so also the revival of the Epstein Brothers. The kings of Klezmer music came back and this time they even took the famous concert halls of Europe and the United States by storm. And if "klezmorimÒ were once seen as on the same level as day laborers and vagabonds, now they are lionized as artists. A belated success - and no one is more surprised about it than the Epstein Brothers themselves ...