jewish music

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

Manuscripts and arrangements of music performed on Yiddish radio station WEVD sat in a basement for 40 years.

Crop tops, kippahs and klezmer: A ‘Jewish rave’ scene takes hold in NYC

“Kleztronica” is a burgeoning Jewish music scene that’s becoming a “movement,” according to its 22-year-old creator, Upper West Side native Kaia Berman-Peters.

How this Brooklyn neighborhood became the ‘Klezmer Shtetl’

A growing cohort of Jewish musicians have made the quiet, south-central Brooklyn neighborhood their home.

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This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era

Israel

Jewish music stars to hold Lag b’Omer benefit concert for Israeli COVID-19 victims

Culture

The deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire inspires a contemporary composer

Editor's Column

I’m dreaming of a Hanukkah song as good as ‘White Christmas’

Culture

An Israeli singer in Amsterdam creates the world’s first Ladino pop album

United States

The Reform movement is alive with the sound of music

Culture

Hear This Jewish Prayer Sung by Texan Cows and a Cowboy

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