A new choral composition based on traditional Yiddish lullabies recently had its world premiere in Vancouver, Canada. Its Swedish Jewish composer, Jacob Mühlrad, is a rising star in the international ...
Language is a delicate thread that binds all of us together, whatever our culture, through memory, sense, and soul. When a language disappears, as many have throughout human history, a bit of all of ...
Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. With her latest ...
Molly and Bob Freedman sort through their collection of Yiddish recordings in Van Pelt. The couple has collected over 21,000 tracks. On the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library, Molly Freedman sits in a ...
The verses of a Yiddish song written in 1943 tell the tale of a young Jewish girl whose father was killed in Nazi-occupied Poland. She is lovingly nicknamed “Sorele,” for Sarah, and has been sent into ...
Tsvey Brider’s show is at 8 p.m. on Saturday. Roughly seven years ago, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin both occupied the niche space of performing klezmer music, a type of Eastern ...
Like the klor-vays tsigele, the restless white goat from the Yiddish lullaby, the Jews of New York have gone a-wandering from their old neighborhoods. In the Norwood section of the Bronx, the ...
Create an account or log in to save stories. JACOB ALOI: Well, every day on Minnesota Now, about this time, you hear these song of the day. And we have a special, you could say, extended edition of ...
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