This article previously appeared in Yiddish. I recently learned that between 1928 and 1938, a Soviet-Jewish musicologist, ethnographer and folklorist named Sofia Magid gave the Jewish world a precious ...

This forgotten musician was once a world-famous singer of both opera and Yiddish folk music. Isa Kremer was a diva who took America by storm.

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

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, ...

Pandemic quarantine offered him an opportunity to reconnect with the old klezmer and Yiddish records in his collection, which he sampled and played guitar over to produce two albums. (JTA) — Folk ...

Jewish folk songs of Palestine. Zirmu galim ; Artsa alinu -- Jewish folk songs of Eastern Europe. Farbenkt ; Mit a nodl ; Kegen gold fun zun ; Zhankoye Repository Loc. Smithsonian Institution, Center ...

Charles Krauthammer knows his way around the written word. But next month, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and his wife, artist Robyn Krauthammer, will unveil a project devoted to ...

“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 ...