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May 25, 1920: The famous opera singer Beverly Sills (Belle Miriam Silverman) “Bubbles” was born

May 25, 2020/ByLawrence Bush /InArticles, Featured/0 Comment

Opera star Beverly Sills (Belle Miriam Silverman, nicknamed “Bubbles” at birth) was born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents on this date in 1929. She was singing professionally on the radio from the age of 4, and she appeared for the first time with the New York City Opera in 1955. She would not appear on […] Read More

Today 3 Jewish events from all over the world. Enjoy each of them and have an extraordinarily good Sunday

May 23, 2020/ByJewish Website/InEvents, Featured, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Today 3 Jewish events from all over the world. Enjoy each of them and have an extraordinarily good Sunday. *** Event 1 International Yiddish Event Live Online! Sholem Aleichem From Every Continent! (IN YIDDISH ONLY) When he passed away in 1916, Sholem Aleichem, the most beloved Yiddish writer of all time, requested in his will that his family and […] Read More

April 30, 1985: Mickey Katz, artist and musician whose Yiddish parody “Home on the Range” became a sensation, dies

April 30, 2020/ByLawrence Bush /InArticles, Featured, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

“Novelty” musician Mickey Katz, who specialized in Jewish parodies of American classics (such as “Haym afn Range” and “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Katzkills”), died at 75 in Los Angeles on this date in 1985. Katz played clarinet and sax from childhood (in Cleveland) and was earning money as a musician even before his graduation from high […] Read More

Daniel Kahn presents “Yiddish Blues in Berlin”

April 29, 2020/ByNational Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene /InEvents, Featured/0 Comment

Featuring new and old songs of hope and despair in Yiddish and English. The Detroit-born and Berlin-based Kahn has toured the world as a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, translator, and teacher. He originated the role of Pertshik in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene‘s Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (Fidler afn Dakh), which features his translation of the lost Bock/Harnick song […] Read More

The traditional Judeo-Spanish songbook – Part 1

April 9, 2020/ByAcademia/InArticles, Featured, Music, Rincón Sefaradí/0 Comment

A study of his oral sources in Buenos Aires, Argentina – Santiago de Chile and Asunción del Paraguay. It includes texts and melodies compiled, transcribed and adapted by the author. Volume: I Year of publication: 1997 Publication name: Doctoral thesis – Part I Click here to download. Read More

Seder for a Better World An Activist’s Hagodeh

April 9, 2020/ByWorkmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring/InArticles, Featured, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

The Passover seder is an activist’s dream of cultural ritual—a debate with dinner and drinking: an evening for celebrating liberation through cross-generational questioning, story-telling, challenging, and eating— bitter, sweet, salty—accompanied by music and wine. Why is this night different? Because it has it all going on—cognitive thrills, historical chills, taste temptations, libations—and all with high […] Read More

STM presents Jewish music for quarantine: “Bei Mir bist du shein”, performed to the rhythm of various artists and composers

March 31, 2020/By/InFeatured, Music, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

“Bei Mir bist du shein” performed to the rhythm of various famous composers such as Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, etc. And “Bei Mir Bist Du Shein” in multiple versions from all over the world: Budapest Klezmer Band The Hot Sardines Gunhild Carling Isis Big Band Timna Brauer The Airlettes Marline Eve The Andrew Sisters (The Barry […] Read More

Chana Roth – “Shtil Di Nakht’ (Partisan’s song in Yiddish)

March 20, 2020/ByJewish Website/InFeatured, Music, Yiddish Vinkl/2 Comments

This is a Partisan’s song – a partizaner lid – composed by H.Glik and performed in circa mid-60’s by Israeli singer Hannah/Chana Roth. SHTIL DI NAKHT in yiddish means “The night is still”. From her album “Ani’im zmirot – Yiddish Folk Songs”. Edited in Israel,2000. Read More

30 Years Recording History – Interviews and Your Thoughts

March 11, 2020/ByMilken Archive of Jewish Music/InFeatured, Music, News/0 Comment

The Milken Archive began as a relatively modest endeavor in 1990, aiming to preserve a handful of liturgical and concert works comprising ten or fifteen albums. Today, the Milken Archive encompasses more than 600 works by 200 composers and crosses genres ranging from folk and Yiddish theater to classical music and jazz. We’ve assembled our […] Read More

March 5, 1968: Syd Nathan’s “Race Records”

March 5, 2020/ByLawrence Bush /InArticles, Featured/0 Comment

Record producer Syd Nathan, a high school drop-out who founded King Records in Cincinnati, died at 63 on this date in 1968. King Records released James Brown’s first single, “Please, Please”, as well as Brown’s 1963 hit album, Live at the Apollo, Vol. I, and created mainstream audiences for rhythm and blues artists as well […] Read More