This is the Forward’s coverage of klezmer, an instrumental music genre of Ashkenazi Jews.
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Yiddish World Strong start for Virginia’s first Yiddish culture festival
Richmond Yiddish Week kicks off with a standing-room-only concert and a well-attended children’s program
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Yiddish World A hypnotic new album inspired by a unique Yiddish recording
The ‘Rose Cohen Experience’ makes use of ambient recordings, an old sewing machine and a women’s prayer
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Yiddish World Virginia-based Yiddishists lead first Yiddish culture festival in Richmond
This is one of many Yiddish festivals that took place this year around the U.S., including Seattle and Albuquerque
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Music How hundreds of forgotten klezmer tunes have been rescued from oblivion
Thanks to a mammoth Klezmer Institute digitization project, we can hear Jewish music that hasn't been played for generations
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Yiddish World Musician-ethnographer Michael Alpert to receive Dreaming in Yiddish Award
Michael Alpert has been a pioneering singer, multi-instrumentalist, ethnographer and educator for over five decades
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Yiddish World From shtetl to synth: How Yiddish electronica found its rhythm
Josh ‘Socalled’ Dolgin and Chaia both aim to keep Yiddish vibrant without turning it into a museum piece
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Yiddish World A Yiddish circus in a suitcase
German audiences are enthusiastic about the show “Tshemodan,” where circus artists perform to a live klezmer band
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Culture It was one of klezmer’s greatest days — will there ever be another?
Leo Sorel's 2007 photograph was both tribute to and proof of the success of America's klezmer revival
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