Jon Kalish is a Manhattan-based writer and radio journalist.
Jon Kalish
By Jon Kalish
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Culture In just one family, four generations of Jewish doctors
Author and physician Ken Weinberg has inherited a history of compassion that started with his grandfather Misha
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Culture On Father’s Day, remembering the daughter I lost twice
I always dreamt that someday we'd reconnect, but it was not to be
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Music Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers
The recovered voices movement aims to preserve the work of persecuted artists like Viktor Ullmann and Mieczyslaw Weinberg
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Culture For Finland’s tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis
Jews arrived here in the 19th century to serve in the Russian army — today, a little more than 1,000 remain
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Culture How a son of Holocaust survivors joined a commune and helped to free ‘Hurricane’ Carter
Compassion for the underdog has been a constant theme in the life of Sam Chaiton
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Fast Forward How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music
Manuscripts and arrangements of music performed on Yiddish radio station WEVD sat in a basement for 40 years
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Music How two Jewish musicians turned front porches in Brooklyn into a vibrant music scene
Roy Nathanson and Aaron Lisman are turning Ditmas Park residents of all ages into jazz aficionados
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Culture How a pair of visionary Jews found a link between Jewish and Native American cultures
Even though poet Jerome Rothenberg is gone, his collaboration with composer Charlie Morrow goes on
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