Yiddish music has always evolved — from the shtetl to the stage, and now to the synth. For some time now a new wave of ...
November 14-16 saw the inaugural Midwest Yiddishfest bring celebration of Yiddish language and culture to the Champaign-Urbana community.
“Amid Falling Walls,” a new production from the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, brings to life poetry and songs created by Jews during the Holocaust. (New York Jewish Week) – “Humanity’s most ...
The concert version of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's celebrated production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish had its West Coast premiere at the Soraya last weekend, and anyone who was ...
Tsvey Brider’s show is at 8 p.m. on Saturday. Roughly seven years ago, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin both occupied the niche space of performing klezmer music, a type of Eastern ...
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German audiences are enthusiastic about the show “Tshemodan,” where circus artists perform to a live klezmer band ...
A Catholic with roots in Slovenia, she found connections between klezmer music and the folks songs of her native Bavaria. (JTA) — Andrea Pancur, a Munich-based singer, teacher and activist who helped ...
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 ...
“Jews, have faith,” Mordechai Gebirtig, the celebrated Yiddish poet, wrote in 1940. “Revel, dance,” he pleaded: “There was once a Haman, his end awaits.” Though the Nazis would murder Gebirtig in ...
So that giant, inflatable gnome you gave grandma for Chanukah didn’t quite have the impact you hoped for. Make it up to your nana tonight by taking her to Those Were The Days. The musical song and ...
CHEYENNE — The annual Yiddish Food Festival is back in Cheyenne for its 18th year of celebrating Jewish culture through music, food and experiences this Sunday. Each year, Mount Sinai Synagogue brings ...