Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, klezmer musician, ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music.[1] Since becoming involved in the klezmer revival in the late 1970s, he has been researching, teaching and performing klezmer music and related genres.[2] He has been a member of, or performed with, such groups as Brave Old World, the Joel Rubin Ensemble, and Veretski Pass.