folk music

Peter Yarrow, Jewish musician and activist of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, dies at 86

A champion of Middle East peace whose career was tarnished by a morals charge involving a minor.

Izzy Young, who produced Bob Dylan’s first major concert, dies at 90

His Folklore Center in New York’s Greenwich Village was a center of the era’s folk revival.

This Austrian Jew Played ‘Fiddler’s’ Tevye 2000 Times

A couple months ago, the world lost a truly singular talent: a man of exceptional range and kindness, a real gutte neshuma (a good soul). That man was 91-year-old Theodore Bikel: actor, singer, activist, mensch. Born in 1924 in Vienna and named after the most famous Jewish Theodore (i.e, Herzl), Bikel and his family fled to […]