About me
Sruli Dresdner has been performing and teaching Klezmer and Hasidic music for the past twenty-five years. Sruli grew up in a Hasidic household filled with Nigun. Sruli, together with his wife, Lisa, have appeared on PBS-TV, performed on National Public Radio, and headlined at Jewish Festivals from Krakow to Jerusalem, Toronto to Texas. Sruli is extensively quoted as a primary source of Hasidic Music and philosophy in the Journal of the Society of Ethnomusicology (Spring/Summer 2007) and he is profiled as a contemporary Jewish educator for the Wexner Oral History Project at the National Yiddish Book Center. Sruli and Lisa have performed at theaters, JCC’s, synagogues, universities and schools as well as at hundreds of Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and weddings. Sruli is currently the Rabbi of Temple Shalom, in Auburn, Maine.
