The Phoenix Yiddish Culture Festival returns on Dec. 4 for a second year. For four days, the festival will bring people ...

Who could have imagined that a group of Jewish tourists from the former Soviet Union—still learning the rhythm and soul of ...

Ka’s music steers clear of nostalgia. She speaks with playful candor about her dislike of traditional klezmer, preferring ...

Among the songs that I remember from my parents’ collection of phonograph records of Yiddish folk music was a melancholy and ...

A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime's Holocaust sought to eradicate the Jewish communities who spoke it.

Klezmer music traces its roots to Eastern European Jewish communities. "Think like Fiddler on the Roof," Posner explains. The music emigrated to America in the 1920s, when "there were like three ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yonatan Malin was awarded a Roser Visiting Artist Grant to bring the singer Anthony Mordechai Zvi Russell to campus for a Yiddish song residency this fall. Russell will be joined by accordionist and ...

JANE MATOUSEK Jun 26, 2025 Posted Jun 26, 2025 at 2: 00 PM About 100 music lovers gathered in the sweltering heat in the afternoon of June 22, when the sound of Yiddish klezmer music floated along the ...

With the Passover Pink Moon hovering above from the west, about a 100 Pensacola Jews young and old gathered at the Pensacola Chabad Center on 12th Avenue for the traditional Passover Seder, where Jews ...