This article previously appeared in Yiddish. I recently learned that between 1928 and 1938, a Soviet-Jewish musicologist, ethnographer and folklorist named Sofia Magid gave the Jewish world a precious ...

Yiddish Glory is a newly recorded album of Jewish folk songs, documented during World War II but thought lost for decades, that matches their... In August 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC)- Musicians from Cincinnati and as far away as Israel are coming together to celebrate Jewish Music. he festival will showcase nine different concerts through March 26. The artistic ...

Jewish folk songs of Palestine. Zirmu galim ; Artsa alinu -- Jewish folk songs of Eastern Europe. Farbenkt ; Mit a nodl ; Kegen gold fun zun ; Zhankoye Repository Loc. Smithsonian Institution, Center ...

Songwriter Lil' Rev performed a bluesy tribute to Jewish folk music he fondly refers to as "Jewgrass" on Wednesday at the Moline Public Library, 3210 41st St. His program "Fiddler on the Roof Meets O ...

Opera in Williamsburg’s series of art song programs will offer settings of Jewish folk songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and more, with projected English translations. “Raisins and Almonds, ...

Twentieth century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was not Jewish, but his music was greatly influenced by the Jewish experience. What that means and how it played out in Shostakovich's landmark ...

For the first time in this country, a new series of Jewish folk songs will be heard next Sunday evening in a music festival arranged under the auspices and for the benefit of the Jewish National Fund.

The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...