folk music

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.

By Abby Sher February 6, 2019 3:03 pm

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 […]

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Izzy Young, The American Folk Music Legend Who Ran Away to Sweden

A few months ago, twenty shipping boxes arrived at the American Folklife Center in Washington, DC. Inside were journals, manuscripts, photographs and recordings of some of America’s greatest musicians, including Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan. The return address? Israel “Izzy” Young. On MacDougal Street I saw a cubby hole, I went in to get […]

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