Folklore scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett doesn’t remember interviewing and recording the Yiddish folksinger Rose Cohen ...

Amsterdam delivers the goods when it comes to memorable experiences and attractions. With canals weaving through the city, ...

And every year my wife Mira and I visit the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. It is a marvelous place dedicated to exploring ...

1291. Transformation of the Cave of the Patriarchs During the Mamluk Era: Architecture, Exclusion, and Religious Policy (1260 ...

(RNS) — Since 1989, through special government permissions, about 4,000 Bnei Menashe have been able to make aliyah, but just as many people have spent years, in some cases generations, attempting to ...

(JTA) — The class does not begin with a lecture. Instead, Neta Elkayam stands at the front of the room and sings. Usually in ...

In Milan, a special performance at the Opera prison has featured instruments made from smugglers' boats that brought migrants ...

After retiring from social work, Ken Arney wanted to pick up a hobby to fill his time. He picked up a few old music instruments, but instead of learning how to play them, he decided to give the ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

The oboe has 500 parts. Turning a profit is a killer. But Jim Phelan is bent on reviving one of the great names in classical ...

This newly discovered Iron Age instrument may have been played in the Celtic resistance against the Roman Empire ...

The trumpets were commonly used to inspire Celtic warriors, but Romans captured them as war trophies.