After a packed, overly scheduled workweek, I love the slow, relaxed tempo of Friday night Shabbos dinner with my family and friends. What makes it stand out are not only the delightful tastes and ...

(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 ...

The Yiddish language, developed out of German by Ashkenazi Jews, was the major language of European Jews before the Holocaust. With the development of modern Hebrew in Israel it started to fade.

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

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 ...

In the midst of the Second World War, a team of ethnomusicologists from the Kiev Cabinet for Jewish Culture, led by the folklorist Moisei Beregovsky, collected ...

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 ...