VIDEO: ‘Shtisel’ bubbe Lea Koenig in a Yiddish music video
The scene reminds us that even a woman in her 80s could feel like a little girl again, longing for her “mommy”
The scene reminds us that even a woman in her 80s could feel like a little girl again, longing for her “mommy”
Leo Sorel's 2007 photograph was both tribute to and proof of the success of America's klezmer revival
Many young people in the audience cheered and sang along with the klezmer stars onstage
Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen will perform Itsik Manger’s ‘Bible Songs’ at the renowned institution in Manhattan
Speakers at the event described in gripping detail the heroic acts by women, including young girls, in the resistance
The goal is to bring together the Yiddish language and literary culture community and the thriving local Yiddish music scene
Musicologist Zisl Slepovitch publishes music recorded in the 1930s in today’s Belarus and Ukraine
When Soviet government leaders invited the singer to give a concert, he did something they didn't expect.
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