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  • ‘New year, play a happy tune’
  • American music producer Justin Goldner at work on a Yiddish album 
  • The Everlasting Melody

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forward.com /1 month ago

‘New year, play a happy tune’

צום נײַעם יאָר שיקן מיר אַ באַגריסונג צו די לייענער מיט אַ וווּנטש זיי זאָלן זיך אויסבעטן אַ גוט־יאָר — אַ יאָר פֿון גליק, געזונט, מזל און שלום. זאָל דעם ייִדישן פֿאָלק באַשערט זײַ...

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forward.com /6 days ago

American music producer Justin Goldner at work on a Yiddish album 

How many Yiddish rock stars do you know? Maybe more than you think. If you watched the Grammy Awards back in 2018, you might have seen one of them, Justin Goldner, accompany Ben Pl...

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jewishjournal.com /4 weeks ago

The Everlasting Melody

Most Jews who have sung "Eitz Chaim" over the past half-century probably never knew Portnoy. They did not know when he wrote the melody or how young he was when he composed it. The...

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kveller.com /1 week ago

Broadway Star Julie Benko’s Parody Medley Is Packed With Yiddish Joy

We adore Julie Benko, the Broadway legend in the making who dazzled as Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl,” delights us with her renditions of Yiddish songs, brought a tear to our eyes wit...

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jewishjournal.com /2 weeks ago

Yasmin Levy Refuses to Put Ladino Music in a Museum

The Israeli singer returns the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills on Oct. 11 with “One More Night,” bringing the mix of Ladino, flamenco and Middle Eastern music that has defined much...

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forward.com /2 days ago

Cantorial music movingly sung by women, at this event in Indiana

אויף איין טאָג איז דאָס שטעטל בלומינגטאָן — אַן אוניווערסיטעט־שטאָט אין ווײַטער אינדיאַנע — געוואָרן אַ צענטער פֿון נײַער און טראַדיציאָנעלער ייִדישער מוזיק. דעם 11טן אָקטאָבער איז...

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kveller.com /1 month ago

This Yiddish Cover of Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’ Has a Fascinating Backstory

When singer, actor and absolute angel on earth Dolly Parton passed away last month at the age of 80, tributes poured in from, well, everyone (my personal favorite may have been thi...

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forward.com /1 week ago

The photos may be black and white, but the klezmer world is drenched with color

In Lloyd Wolf’s evocative photography exhibit, “A Joyful Noise,” you can almost hear the Klezmer music — plaintive and celebratory, earthy and devout, and always with a profound, b...

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forward.com /1 month ago

AUDIO: Scholar Ruth Wisse describes her collaboration with songwriter Leonard Cohen

אין אַ גאָר אינטערעסאַנטן אינטערוויו אויף דער ייִדישער ראַדיאָ־פּראָגראַם „דאָס ייִדישע קול“, גיט די אָנגעזעענע ייִדישע ליטעראָטור־פֿאָרשערין רות ווײַס איבער אירע זכרונות פֿון אַ צ...

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forward.com /3 hours ago

VIDEO: A Hasid gives us a tour of Morocco in Yiddish

דער ירושלימער יוטוב־שטערן וועלוול קירשנבוים האָט לעצטנס אַרויסגעשטעלט אַ ווידעאָ אויף ייִדיש פֿון אַ פּרעכטיקן וויזיט, וואָס ער האָט געמאַכט אין מאַראָקאָ. עס באַגלייט אים זײַן חבֿ...

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forward.com /1 week ago

Memories of Bubbe Khave-Leye at the marketplace in Buenos Aires

אין אונדזערע צײַטן זענען ווייניק יונגע מענטשן זוכה אויסצוּוואַקסן אין אַ שטוב וווּ עס וווינען דרײַ דורות. איך בין געבוירן געוואָרן אין אַ שטוב, וווּ עס האָבן געוווינט צוזאַמען מײַנ...

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forward.com /4 weeks ago

How Russian and Austrian politics gave rise to modern Yiddish literature 

פֿון װאַנען האָט זיך גענומען די מאָדערנע ליטעראַטור אױף ייִדיש און העברעיִש? ביז הײַנט האָט מען געהאַלטן, אַז זי איז געװען אַ פּועל־יוצא פֿון דער השׂכּלה־אידעאָלאָגיע, װאָסער ציל א...

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forward.com /1 month ago

How can Yiddish fans in Israel benefit from the growing Yiddish scene abroad?

 דער הינטערגרונט די באַציִונגען צווישן ייִדיש-אינסטיטוציעס אין ישׂראל און אין אַמעריקע איז אַ בכּבֿודיקע, אַקטועלע טעמע וואָס דאַרף הײַנט באַהאַנדלט ווערן מיט אַ פֿרישן צוגאַנג. או...

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forward.com /3 weeks ago

Jewish languages meet in Birobidzhan

אויף אַן אינטערנאַציאָנאַלן ייִדישן קולטור־פֿעסטיוואַל לעצטנס אין ביראָבידזשאַן האָט מיך, ווי אַ ייִדישיסט, באַזונדערס פֿאַרחידושט די אינערלעכע ייִדישע פֿיל־שפּראַכיקייט. דער „אינט...

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kveller.com /2 weeks ago

This Multimedia Artist Is Inspired by the Stories of Jewish Immigrant Women

This article is part of Kveller’s Jewish Artists Spotlight, featuring Jewish artists who work in a variety of media in New York, Israel and elsewhere. The project combines a series...

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haaretz.com /1 month ago

'Home in Jaffa': The song capturing the Israeli zeitgeist like no other this year

This week in Israeli culture: Why musician Dudu Tassa's 'Home in Jaffa' is the best song of the year. Plus: Rachel Goldberg-Polin on home and loss, and a West Bank elegy from Amos...

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jewishjournal.com /4 weeks ago

Yiddish Historians: Writing in Their Own Language for Their Own People

Mark Smith has compiled an important anthology of Jewish history using 49 works by Yiddish historians to recreate or at least open the door to a world of Jewish thought that was on...

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forward.com /1 week ago

Yiddish Modernism and the political tumult in the 1930s

אין די 1920ער און 1930ער יאָרן האָט דער זשורנאַל „אין זיך“ געדינט װי אַ טריבונע פֿאַר מאָדערניסטישע עקספּערימענטן אין דער אַמעריקאַנער ייִדיש־ליטעראַטור. צו די „אינזיכיסטן“ האָבן ג...

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forward.com /1 month ago

In the Southwest, public libraries are becoming Yiddish hubs

Think of Yiddish today and you might picture Hasidic Brooklyn, Haredi neighborhoods in Israel or scholars working to preserve a language too often falsely written off as “dead” or...

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forward.com /1 month ago

How the Yiddish project took root in the U.S. after the Holocaust

How did the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research find a new home in the United States after the Holocaust? Kalman Weiser (York University, Toronto) narrates this dramatic story in a...

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forward.com /1 week ago

‘Sefer Elijah’ — probably the oldest proto-Ashkenazi text

ס׳איז מעגלעך, אַז מיר האָט זיך אײַנגעגעבן צו אַנטדעקן דעם עלטסטן פּראָטאָ־אַשכּנזישן טעקסט, אָנגעשריבן אינעם פֿריִיִקן 9טן יאָרהונדערט. דאָס איז דער אוראַלטער אַפּאָקאַליפּטישער מד...

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jewishjournal.com /4 weeks ago

Kol Nidrei, Broken Eggs and a Beethoven Quartet in C Sharp Minor

[…] The post Kol Nidrei, Broken Eggs and a Beethoven Quartet in C Sharp Minor appeared first on Jewish Journal.

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egyptianstreets.com /2 weeks ago

Eish and Malḥ Between Us: a Musician on Cairo’s Shared Jewish Traditions

I first stepped foot in Sha’ar HaShamayim Synagogue in fall of 2021, on the eve of the Jewish New Year. Sha’ar HaShamayim means “The Gate of Heaven” in Hebrew (Genesis 28:17). It r...

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violinist.com /1 week ago

Interview with Noah Bendix-Balgley: a Klezmer Concerto in Germany

By Laurie Niles: Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley has a fascinating perspective, between his American roots, his Jewish heritage and his 12 years in Germany as First Concertmaster of...

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