(New York Jewish Week) — Folk cultures are the product of many thousands of people making small gestures that accumulate over generations. But the preservation and transmission of such material is ...

“From the Cradle to the Chuppe” is the title given a collection of Yiddish folk-songs compiled by Constance and Henry Gideon and published in two volumes by the Arthur P. Schmidt Company, Boston and ...

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. Hasidic Yiddish songwriter-singer Motty ...

On January 19, 2025, the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a concert — Soul to Soul. It will feature Yiddish folk ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Join us for an afternoon of traditional Yiddish folksong and new classical works that explore Jewish life and historical experience, including ...

Temple Beth El will host its third annual Jewish Music & Culture Festival starting Tuesday. The event runs through Feb. 10. This year’s all-Zoom program offers a blend of new and returning presenters.

Ruth Rubin devoted most of her life to preserving a Jewish folk song tradition that seemed destined to die. Now, a New York-based organization is making sure it survives permanently by creating a ...

Temple Beth El’s fifth annual Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival kicks off Sunday evening and then continues on March 16 and 17. A program called “The Angel’s Wings: Music & Tales for the Soul ...

A new genre of music originating from Boston’s indie scene and conservatory institutions is taking root throughout nightclubs in the United States and abroad. These sounds are spearheaded by DJ Chaia, ...

A KASS: (Singing in Yiddish). A KASS: For years, he lent his vocals to the Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble in Northern California. Kass died in March at the age of 89, one of more than 2,000 Californians ...