This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish music, including klezmer and other traditions.
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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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Culture These Jewish Eurovision songs are terrible. Listen to them anyway
For every awful song, there's a moment when nothing else works
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Music The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame just got a little more Jewish (and a little less rock ‘n’ roll)
Al Kooper and Rage Against the Machine are among this year's inductees
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Music Why Harry Belafonte once joked that he was ‘the most popular Jew in America’
There was more to the singer and activist's engagement with Jewish culture than a hit version of 'Hava Nagila'
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Fast Forward Harry Belafonte, singer and civil rights activist who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96
The New York native, who was close friends with Martin Luther King Jr., had many Jewish connections
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