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.

The Jewish Studies Program, in conjunction with Jacobs School of Music, hosted poet and songwriter Psoy Korolenko in ...

(New York Jewish Week) — As they say in the mameloshn (mother tongue), “Dos Yidish lid iz umetum.” In other words, “Yiddish song is in the air.” This month a collection of new Yiddish songs will be ...

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 ...

The Shvesters don’t just perform in Yiddish — they also cover Hebrew songs — but they aim to help keep the language alive through their music. Yiddish as a spoken language has been on the decline ...

“Lider mit Palestine” draws on Jewish music traditions to express solidarity with the Palestinians and opposition to the war. Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places ...

Temple Beth El’s fifth annual Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival kicks off Sunday evening and then continues on March 16 and 17. A program called “The Angel’s Wings: Music & Tales for the Soul ...

(JTA) — When I was younger, my family sang Yiddish songs at almost every holiday and gathering. Funny songs, sad songs, songs about love, about the Holocaust, about hunger, about labor and resistance ...

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will focus on Jewish music and culture with two events in February. “Klezmer & ...

The sixth annual Humboldt Jewish Music & Cultural Festival is slated for Feb. 1 and 2 at Temple Beth El, 3233 T St., Eureka. This year’s event – which includes several workshops, a dance party and a ...