Klezmer star Daniel Kahn to receive the 2023 ‘Dreaming in Yiddish Award’
The award, in memory of the inspirational singer and activist Adrienne Cooper, will be presented at the Yiddish New York Festival.
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Forverts in English New musical will highlight the remarkable creativity of Jews in the ghettos and camps
After the war, partisan fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski visited displaced persons camps and recorded the songs that survivors shared with him.
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Fast Forward The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus celebrates its 100th anniversary with a rare Yiddish rendition of ‘Hatikvah’
A concert featuring songs of defiance becomes sadly relevant as Israel enters into a war with Hamas
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Forverts in English VIDEO: Israeli soldier on the front singing a Yiddish fighting song
Yonatan was inspired to sing the “The Partisan Hymn” as his tank was rolling down the dusty road to the front
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Forverts in English A summer reunion in the country, Jewish socialist style
Camp Hemshekh, which closed in 1978, was the summer home for hundreds of campers, many of them children of Holocaust survivors
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Forverts in English Listen to a passionate performance of Yiddish art song
David Childs learned the music of composer Lazar Weiner from his son Yehudi
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Forverts in English Smithsonian festival to include Yiddish concert, blintzes and pickling workshops
The annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrates contemporary cultural traditions from around the world.
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Forverts in English The myth and songs inspired by the Jewish couple that perished in the Titanic
The Yiddish music written in memory of Isidor and Ida Straus reveals the empathy that Jews had for them
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