This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish music, including klezmer and other traditions.
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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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Books 24 visions of Leonard Cohen, no clear picture of who he was
'The World of Leonard Cohen’ compares the mythologies of the musician and poet
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Music How I found freedom in a Passover Seder, an amp and a red Fender Duo-Sonic guitar
A $150 musical instrument and a gig at a cafeteria led me out of my personal Egypt
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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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