This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish music, including klezmer and other traditions.
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Culture A moving tribute to Soviet Jewry, with uncomfortable contemporary echoes
Yiddish Glory's follow-up to its Grammy-nominated debut album holds up a mirror to our own age
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Music An 82-year-old Jewish recording legend on his film directing debut: ‘I could have been good at this’
in 'Heart & Soul,' Kenny Vance pays tribute to the doo-wop legends who inspired his career
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Culture Two women race to save Persian Jewish music before it fades
Using tapes of their grandfathers singing in Iran, Galeet Dardashti and Jacqueline Rafii are transcribing and adapting songs that echo centuries of tradition
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Culture For the ‘Jazz Rabbi’ of Connecticut, music and Judaism are both about tradition and improvisation
Greg Wall runs 'Jazz at the Post' in Westport, but still finds time to pray and study Talmud every day
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News ‘Auschwitz’ is a hit Iranian protest anthem, part of a music genre rebelling against official antisemitism
A defiant song, whose lyricist is in prison for snubbing the ayatollah, plays on Jewish themes to confront authoritarian rule
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Culture How an Amish Mennonite school in Arkansas went viral with a song by an Orthodox Jew
The choir director of the Calvary Bible School says that 'Tatty, My King' shows the surprising affinities between Jews and Mennonites
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Culture Why Bad Bunny’s halftime show delighted New York Jews of a certain age
The Jewish love affair with Latin music and ‘Nueva Yol’ dates back to mambo dancing in the Catskills and stories of a shared diaspora
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Looking Forward Why am I so much better at singing in Hebrew than in English?
Solving a mystery from my bat mitzvah, two decades later
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