This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish music, including klezmer and other traditions.
Music
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Music Klezmer techno music? This 22 year-old is making it a thing
With Kleztronica, Kaia Berman-Peters blends klezmer elements with electronic dance music
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Music For one Jewish rock ’n’ roll legend, loving Sandy Koufax and R.E.M. is not a contradiction
With The Baseball Project supergroup, Steve Wynn has found a way to embrace his two passions
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Music If they were ‘the only band that mattered,’ is he the only Jewish guitarist who matters?
The Clash and BAD's Mick Jones, now 68, is the son of a Welsh father and a Russian Jewish mother
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Music Is this a vision of heaven or is it a Taylor Swift concert?
For one fan, his parents and 80,000 others, a blissful revelation — from one era to the next
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Fast Forward In Berlin concert, Roger Waters compares death of Anne Frank to Shireen Abu Akleh
The former Pink Floyd singer also dressed up as a Nazi … again
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Yiddish World The tragic fate of a young Jewish children’s orchestra in 1933
This rare glimpse of a happy moment in prewar Jewish community life offers no hint of what lay ahead
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Culture How one man’s photographic memory helped preserve the music of the Nazi camps
Aleksander Kulisiewicz survived Sachsenhausen and went on to create a jaw-dropping archive
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Culture No, Steely Dan hasn’t aged all that well, but then again, neither have we
'Quantum Criminals' reveals the jaundiced and Jewish-inflected cynicism behind the slick musicianship of Steely Dan
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