New film captures the talent and devotion of musicians choosing Yiddish
'A subculture within a subculture': Director Ros Horin chats with the artists and highlights their inspiring performances
'A subculture within a subculture': Director Ros Horin chats with the artists and highlights their inspiring performances
The award, in memory of the inspirational singer and activist Adrienne Cooper, will be presented at the Yiddish New York Festival.
The site provides lyrics, translation, songsheets and historical context for songs on many themes, including love, holidays and the labor struggle.
Meet four secular Jews who are uniquely knowledgeable in the rich Yiddish cultural legacy, which includes literature, history and yes, religion.
“The Butcher’s Share,” the new album by Yiddish-punk outfit Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, could hardly be more timely. Drawing from and building upon the great tradition of Yiddish songs of resistance – partisan songs, worker’s anthems, gangster ballads – Kahn’s latest album speaks directly to the urgent political challenges of our time and…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The longtime editor of the Bundist journal Lebns-Fragn and an Israel-correspondent for the Forverts, Yitzhak Luden z”l, used to say that Yiddish today outside of the Hasidic world is a language mainly spoken at festivals. Soon we’ll be able to say that it’s also spoken on river…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In the traditional Jewish betrothal ceremony (called tnoyim in Yiddish), the bride and groom barely play a role. The parents of both sides draw up a document detailing all the prenuptial conditions; the parents then sign that document, alongside two “kosher” witnesses. But at the recent engagement…
It’s about two hours before their show at the JCC in Manhattan, and I’m having dinner with Psoy Korolenko and Daniel Kahn, the duo known as the Unternationale. As a solo performer, Korolenko has been winning fans in the United States, mostly at clubs and gatherings catering to young Russian émigrés and at university campuses….
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