I always felt like I’d lived through musical history at age 16, because it was at my family’s annual Hanukkah party in 1982 ...

It was my first time seeing a religious area ... For listeners who are deeply connected to Jewish growth, I hope the music serves as an accompaniment to their lives, something that stays out ...

Many protagonists of Jewish music are not Jewish ... It took me quite some time to get used to hearing [German] people talking about the Holocaust, and they say ‘It is such a pity that ...

In the USSR, Jewish life, Jewish religion and Jewish education were forbidden. Anyone who wanted to learn about Jewishness had to seek out ways to learn about it at his or her own risk. Jewish ...