This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish music, including klezmer and other traditions.
Music
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Music After decades of waiting, we’re finally getting a Bob Dylan-Barbra Streisand duet
The two legends will join in song for Babs’ new album of duets
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Music Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers
The recovered voices movement aims to preserve the work of persecuted artists like Viktor Ullmann and Mieczyslaw Weinberg
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Fast Forward Sharon Osbourne calls for music group to lose US visas after anti-Israel Coachella performance
Debra Messing, Adam Levine, and other Jewish stars — and Nova festival survivors — are also criticizing Joe Schmoe, lead singer Kneecap
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Music How Janis Ian’s Jewish heritage inspired some of her greatest hits
A new documentary on the singer's life shows the relationship between her faith, her activism, and her songwriting.
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Fast Forward ‘Darkness will fade,’ Yuval Raphael sings in Israel’s Eurovision entry, ‘New Day Will Rise’
The song contains a line from Jewish scripture
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Yiddish World Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever
Musicologist Zisl Slepovitch publishes music recorded in the 1930s in today’s Belarus and Ukraine
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Books How a Jewish daughter’s search to find her parents became a book and a play and a movie
Writer and performer Zara Phillips, author of 'Somebody's Daughter,' has turned her question into art
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Fast Forward Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video, ‘F—ed up,’ places the West Bank and Holocaust side-by-side
The song, posted Tuesday, has garnered more than 14 million views on X alone
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