This forgotten musician was once a world-famous singer of both opera and Yiddish folk music. Isa Kremer was a diva who took America by storm.

Temple Beth El’s fifth annual Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival kicks off Sunday evening and then continues on March 16 and 17. A program called “The Angel’s Wings: Music & Tales for the Soul ...

The Shvesters don’t just perform in Yiddish — they also cover Hebrew songs — but they aim to help keep the language alive through their music. Yiddish as a spoken language has been on the decline ...

(New York Jewish Week) — A collection of documents described as a treasure trove of Jewish music has been acquired by the New York Public Library, after being hidden in a cantor’s basement in Yonkers ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. One of the first 1900s Yiddish recording ...

Partisan Song” tells how a Jewish engineer from Ukraine became a guerilla war hero. His music will be heard for the first time in 83 years.

As vocalist Anthony Russell learned a Yiddish piece about a woeful traveler far away from their family, he noticed it felt like another, very culturally different song — the African American spiritual ...

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin. Photo by Stefan Loeber. On Oct. 24-29, the CU Boulder College of Music will host a unique klezmer and Yiddish song residency featuring singer Anthony ...

Jordan Wax, a Santa Fe-based composer and performer of Yiddish and New Mexican regional music, has just released a record of original secular Yiddish children’s songs. When asked why, he didn’t skip a ...

(JTA) – “The Zone of Interest” is not like other Holocaust movies. Directed by British Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, the film initially appears to follow an unexceptional German family in the ...