Holocaust Museum LA will present the debut of 'Klezmer Jam,' a vibrant outdoor concert and celebration of klezmer and Yiddish ...

Long-lost Yiddish songs tell stories of Soviet Jews during the Second World War. Sophie Milman’s grandmother was in her early teens when she fled from Ukraine to Kazakhstan with her mother and ...

"Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II," includes 18 tracks composed by Jews in the Soviet Union and Ukraine. (Courtesy of Six Degrees Records) ...

Hundreds of Yiddish songs, including the Leo Frank ballad, can be freely accessed thanks to a thorough digitization process overseen by my brother, Elisha Mlotek, who served as creative director ...

Yiddish Glory is a newly recorded album of Jewish folk songs, documented during World War II but thought lost for decades, that matches their of-the-moment lyrics to the folk songs they piggybacked.

Another Yiddish song, Dem Nayntn Yanuar, “Ninth of January”, references what’s known as the Bloody Sunday March in Russia. Towards the end of the 19th century, ...

When Anna Shternshis stumbled on to a collection of Yiddish songs in the late 1990s, at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kiev, she had no measure of their value. Upon revisiting the ...

Two performances of Josh Waletzky’s Yiddish song cycle will mark the American debut of the work, which was first performed in 2019 at the Weimar Republic of Yiddishland gathering in Germany.

In the 1990s, the iconic Yiddish soprano and activist Adrienne Cooper (1946 — 2011) created slightly new lyrics for the song, turning it into a call for peace and justice in the world.. If I had ...

Eight years ago, when I was in Jerusalem with a group of theater people, we had Sabbath dinner with the former ambassador to the U. S., Simcha Dinitz, at which a rabbi and his two daughters sang tr… ...