Join Cindy Paley's klezmer trio for a rich and rousing evening of "Yiddish Favorites, Old and New!" Come ready to learn and sing along to the vibrant and colorful songbook of the Eastern European ...

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.

Yiddish Glory is a newly recorded album of Jewish folk songs, documented during World War II but thought lost for decades, that matches their... In August 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, ...

The name of the An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble doubles as its mission statement: The quartet of performers and researchers has built a repetoire of old Yiddish folk songs dating back 100 years to ...

Throughout the city, new versions of old songs, and celebrations of the people who preserved them. (New York Jewish Week) — As they say in the mameloshn (mother tongue), “Dos Yidish lid iz umetum.” In ...

“Understanding popular music -- how it was manufactured and consumed -- is one of the key elements to understanding Israeli culture,” according to Lewis Glinert, a professor of Asian and Middle ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) today dishes up some exciting new ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) today announced the cast and ...

Regardless of technological advancements or changing music trends, folk music never seems to go out of style. This may have to do with roots music forming the DNA from which most music styles evolve.

The musician and soon-to-be Vienna city councillor is part of a wave of Jewish millennials seeking to reconnect with Jewish labor ideals of past centuries. (JTA) — Isabel Frey stands outside the ...