The dance workshop was in full swing, but catastrophe was afoot: Nobody understood how to make a four-pointed star. I’m referring to a folk dance pattern that, as one of the less competent dancers in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst will once again host Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music from Thursday, July 10, through Sunday, July 13. The festival includes seven concerts, four ...

When Polish-born musician Maria Ka released her latest album Di Mashin (The Machine), she wasn’t merely reviving Yiddish song — she was remaking it in her own cosmic image. Performing out of Gdańsk, ...

If, like me, you enjoy listening to old recordings of the iconic folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, you may want to check this ...

Yisroel Leshes reinvents a genre rooted in the Jewish immigrant experience of the early 20th century. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Right before COVID hit in the spring of 2020, Yisroel Leshes was ...

For the millions of Jewish immigrants teeming into New York City at the turn of the last century, there was a place where they could be entertained and their culture could be sustained, even as they ...

Michael Alpert, an influential klezmer musician and ethnographer who has played a key role in the global renaissance of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about great music, mobile-centric tech and related trends. As World War II consumed Europe leaving a trail of death, ...

IF YOU take the subway around New York, you can sometimes hear groups of young Jewish women chatting quietly, their hair covered. At a distance, it sounds like they’re using German, perhaps Hebrew. In ...