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 ...

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 ...

For New York Yiddish fans, the concert at SummerStage in Central Park last Monday evening was a night to remember. Billed as ...

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 ...

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, ...

“Amid Falling Walls” features Yiddish songs by those who faced Nazi persecution, while “The Gardens of Anuncia” is a musical about the early life of choreographer Graciela Daniele.

I grew up singing Yiddish Holocaust songs before I knew English nursery rhymes. My paternal grandparents, Yosl and Chana Mlotek, uncovered the culture of a people nearly destroyed and made Yiddish ...

We'll learn some Yiddish folk songs. And then Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul, which is hosting, will roll it into a Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony and some celebrating and eating treats together.

Cookie Blattman is doing her part to keep the Yiddish language and culture alive and well! I heard Cookie sing for the first time at a Child Survivors/Hidden Children of the Holocaust meeting in Bo… ...