VIDEO: The powerful ‘Ballad of September 11’ (in Yiddish with English subtitles)
Singer Lucette van den Berg performs the song composed by the late songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Singer Lucette van den Berg performs the song composed by the late songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Elena Yakovich’s ‘Song Searcher’ examines how Moyshe Beregovsky recorded Yiddish folksongs and oral traditions
How a composer, librettist and historian filled in the blanks on the missing masterpiece 'Bas Sheve'
Two new albums reimagine a centuries-old tradition of adapting poetry to music
In the 1920s, after the horrific pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution, a Jewish musician and ethnomusicologist named Moyshe Beregovsky, also known as Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovskii, travelled across Ukraine with a phonograph in hand, seeking to record the authentic Yiddish music of Ukrainian Jewry. Among the hundreds of songs that he collected were Yiddish folk…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Steadfast listeners of “Borscht Beat” — a weekly FM radio show featuring Jewish music, old and new — will be thrilled to hear of host Aaron Bendich’s latest project: a new Jewish record label of the same name. On his hour-long radio program, the 27-year-old plays…
Yisroel Leshes, assistant cantor of New York’s Orthodox Lincoln Square Synagogue, has released a cool, jazzy version of Morris Winchevsky’s Yiddish song, “Di Tsukunft” (“The Future”), which dreams of the day when “di velt vet vern frayer, shener, yinger, nayer” (“the world will be freer, lovelier, younger and newer”). The music video, accompanied by English…
At the height of his success in 1967, Jay Black, lead singer of the pop band, Jay and the Americans, recorded a popular Yiddish folk song and managed to convince his record label, United Artists, to include it on the B-side of their album, “Try Some of This!” The story, first published by the Forward…
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