Since there's no point in lying to a stranger online, I never actually read the book, I was too busy with exams at the time I saw it and just copied the cd ;) But it's been on my "to-read" list--next time I'm back at that library I should give it a go, since you recommend it!

I don't have the tracks on the CD with me, but I remember knowing a few of them from the klezmer scene (of course Alpert and Brotman are two mainstays of the klezmer revival..) and there being a lot of neat "new" ones too, or new russian lyrics to the ones I did know.