7 standout items from a new exhibit celebrating Yiddish New York The Jewish Theological Seminary dips into its archives to show the political and cultural ferment of Jewish immigrants. By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 20, 2023 3:02 pm
An ahead-of-its-time klezmer album will be performed live for the first time Clarinet great Michael Winograd will lead all-star musicians in a performance “Tanz,” a groundbreaking recording that flopped in 1956. February 13, 2023 1:59 pm
The New York Times called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s how Wikipedia warriors made him Jewish again. The fight over Singer’s identity offers lessons on the pitfalls of decentralized knowledge in the era of disinformation, with some possible insights about Polish ultranationalism. June 4, 2021 12:40 pm
A collection of Yiddish songs was thought lost forever. Now they’ve been nominated for a Grammy. By Penny Schwartz January 25, 2019 11:48 am