The family of Olga R almost threw out the collection of 20 songs written by concentration camp prisoners after her death, before discovering its incredible history ...

The Jewish Folk Chorus is turning 100! As it approaches its centennial, the S.F.-based group is full of renewed energy from ...

(New York Jewish Week) – Like many great ideas, “The Mamales,” a Yiddish singing group, began on a summer night at a bar on the Lower East Side. The women who make up the trio, Maya Jacobson, Raquel ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Last fall, when Binyumen Schaechter started putting together the 2023 repertoire for the Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus, he thought an apt theme and title would be “Chutzpah!

By the time the children began singing in Yiddish on their own at a playground in Rio de Janeiro, Sonia Kramer realized something important had changed. The songs were not part of a formal lesson. No ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A familiar face returns to Columbia next week, carrying with him a sound that's both ingrained and — till now — has gone unsung.

Cookie Blattman is doing her part to keep the Yiddish language and culture alive and well! I heard Cookie sing for the first time at a Child Survivors/Hidden Children of the Holocaust meeting in Boca ...

After taking the internet by storm with their harmonic and jazz-infused takes on traditional Yiddish melodies, The Shvesters are making their Philly debut with a concert at the Weitzman National ...

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is presenting the world premiere of Amid Falling Walls (Tvishn Falndike Vent), a new musical that, it says, “celebrates the resilience and hope of those who endured ...

Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places to which they spread. It is the language of socialists and capitalists, the Partisans who fought the Nazis and most of the ...

People have been responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways - some by donating money to humanitarian projects, others by protesting. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs ...