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 ...

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 ...

(JTA) — Andrea Pancur, a Munich-based singer, teacher and activist who helped bridge the worlds of German and Yiddish song culture — and who served as role model for women in the world of klezmer ...

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 ...

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, ...

Hasidic Yiddish songwriter-singer Motty Ilowitz has never shied away from writing songs that don’t fit the Haredi mold. In his latest one, “Mochel” — which translates to “Forgive Me” — he tells the ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Chana Mlotek, a noted archivist of Yiddish folk music and an impassioned collector of Yiddish songs from the shtetls of Europe, has died at age 91. She died of cancer Monday at her ...

People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.

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 ...