Jon Kalish

New York

He kicked off the 1970s klezmer revival. Now, he’s paying tribute to New York’s vast global music scene.

By Jon Kalish July 16, 2025

New York

After fighting cancer, klezmer legend Frank London is busier than ever

By Jon Kalish February 18, 2025

New York

A.J. Weberman, famous for picking through Bob Dylan’s trash, shares his thoughts on ‘A Complete Unknown’

By Jon Kalish January 9, 2025

New York

How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music

By Jon Kalish November 11, 2024

New York

How ‘uptown’ Jews fought to clean up the criminal underworld of the Lower East Side

By Jon Kalish September 5, 2024

New York

Meet the New Yorker tracing the 300-year history of the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, from Chernobyl to the Bronx

By Jon Kalish August 13, 2024

New York

The Jewish mother who became a crime boss in Gilded Age New York

By Jon Kalish July 9, 2024

New York

Jerome Rothenberg, Bronx-born poet whose ‘ethnopoetics’ inspired scholars and rock stars, dies at 92

By Jon Kalish April 29, 2024

New York

Just in time for Purim, local businesses offer Jewish revelers pricey IV hangover ‘cures’

By Jon Kalish March 21, 2024

New York

A tiny Orthodox synagogue, a relic of the old Jewish Lower East Side, struggles to survive

By Jon Kalish February 1, 2024