Yiddish music has always evolved — from the shtetl to the stage, and now to the synth. For some time now a new wave of artists has been bringing its spirit into the digital age. Across clubs from ...

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Steadfast listeners of “Borscht Beat” — a weekly FM radio show featuring Jewish music, old and new — will be thrilled to hear of host Aaron Bendich’s latest ...

(New York Jewish Week) — As they say in the mameloshn (mother tongue), “Dos Yidish lid iz umetum.” In other words, “Yiddish song is in the air.” This month a collection of new Yiddish songs will be ...

The Holocaust silenced millions of Yiddish voices; musicians are now bringing the songs of a lost civilization back to life The Holocaust destroyed far more than lives. It shattered one of Europe’s ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Right before COVID hit in the spring of 2020, Yisroel Leshes was looking to branch out of the world of cantorial music. For most of his professional singing career, he ...

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin. Photo by Stefan Loeber. On Oct. 24-29, the CU Boulder College of Music will host a unique klezmer and Yiddish song residency featuring singer Anthony ...

Bridging the heartfelt and heartbreak with soaring celebration, traditional and contemporary Yiddish music will fill the air this July as the Yidstock festival returns to the Yiddish Book Center in ...

NEW YORK -- Seventeen years ago, sound archivist Henry Sapoznik was rummaging through an eviction sale in a cluttered Times Square office, looking for vintage 78 rpm recordings of Yiddish music, when ...

Upshtat Zingerai play Jewish simhah dance music for a wedding at the South Shore Cultural Center. From left to right: Emma Blau, Jonah Lazarus, Qi Yang, Hannah Mira Friedland, and Ethan Aronson Credit ...

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,” ...

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