What happened to Yiddish theater, how it came to be, why it faded and how it made a comeback are among the questions explored in “Immigrant Songs: Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience,” ...
Jordan Wax, a Santa Fe-based composer and performer of Yiddish and New Mexican regional music, has just released a record of original secular Yiddish children’s songs. When asked why, he didn’t skip a ...
Most American Jews know of two Yiddish Hanukkah songs, thanks to their well-known English versions: “Khanike oy khanike” and “Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl.” Less well-known is the beautiful, and much more ...
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“This is the exact moment that Jews and their allies should be coming together,” said organizer Zalmen Mlotek. Yiddish music lovers, this one’s for you: A free outdoor Yiddish music concert and ...
(New York Jewish Week) A collection of documents described as a treasure trove of Jewish music has been acquired by the New York Public Library, after being hidden in a cantor’s basement in Yonkers ...
Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places to which they spread. It is the language of socialists and capitalists, the Partisans who fought the Nazis and most of the ...
The Shvesters don’t just perform in Yiddish — they also cover Hebrew songs — but they aim to help keep the language alive through their music. Yiddish as a spoken language has been on the decline ...
People have been responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways - some by donating money to humanitarian projects, others by protesting. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clarinetist Gilad Harel and accordion player Ilya Magalnyk will provide the sonic backdrop to Avi Bar Eitan’s talk on a broad ...
Simon Rutberg hadn’t set foot on Fairfax Blvd in years. In fact, it’s been nearly two decades since he closed his record store there in 2006. The memories are too painful and there are too many of ...