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Kirk Douglas Receives Lifetime Achievement Award | Sings Yiddish | 2002

February 11, 2020/ByFolksbiene/InFeatured, Music, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Celebrating the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre and 100 Years of Yiddish Theatre Presented by: Governor and Mrs. George E. Pataki, The State of New York With: Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Master of Ceremonies: Eli Wallach Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Kirk Douglas Videotaped by: CUNY TV75 2002 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq7VeBjup-g&feature=youtu.be Read More

Shalom Aleichem - Dnipro Chamber Orchestra

Welcoming Shabes with Sholem Aleikhem for French Horn and Orchestra

February 7, 2020/ByJewish Humor Central/InMusic, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Dnipro is the third largest city in Ukraine and it’s the home of the chamber orchestra of the Dnipro State Conservatory. Today we’re welcoming Shabbat with the orchestra’s version of Shalom Aleichem from Lev Kogan’s Hassidic Tunes for Horn and Orchestra with Dmytro Taran playing the French horn. Enjoy, and Shabbat Shalom! Read More

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi nominated for “2020 San Diego Music Awards” – Please vote!

February 5, 2020/By/InFeatured, Music, News, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Hello everyone, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi have been nominated for a SD Music Award in the ” Best World Music” category. Please take a moment and vote for us. You can vote more than once (but only one time per day) for Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi. Read below the text that is underlined which will […] Read More

“Zog Nit Keynmol” in Spanish, from Mexico City

January 30, 2020/ByJewish Website/InEvents, Featured, Music, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

We present to you “Zog Nit Keyn Mol” in Spanish, from Mexico. With respect, all standing when listening to the anthem of resistance at the Museum of Anthropology during a Holocaust Remembrance event. Nunca digas Nunca digas que esta senda es la final. Acero y plomo ocultan un cielo celestial. Nuestra hora tan soñada llegará, […] Read More

WATCH: Benjy Fox-Rosen performs Bardichever’s lament, “Doina”

January 28, 2020/By/InFeatured, Music, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

ווען בענדזשי פֿאָקס־ראָזען האָט פֿאַרלאָזט ניו־יאָרק און זיך באַזעצט אין ווין מיט אַ פֿיר־פֿינף יאָר צוריק, האָט די ניו־יאָרקער קלעזמער־סבֿיבֿה פֿאַרלוירן איינער פֿון זײַנע נאָוואַטאָרישסטע זינגער און קאָמפּאָזיטאָרן. צום גליק קען מען, אַ דאַנק „יוטוב‟, געניסן פֿון זײַנע אויפֿטריטן אין ווין. דאָס לעצטע מאָל וואָס איך האָב געשריבן וועגן בענדזשי פֿאָקס־ראָזען, איז עס געווען אין […] Read More

La musique spoliée / Looted Music

January 24, 2020/ByJewish Website/InEvent Announcements and Recaps, Events/0 Comment

JOURNÉE d’ÉTUDE / WORKSHOP au Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po 56 rue Jacob, 75006 Paris With the support of the association ‘Musique et Spoliations’ Working language: English Inscription obligatoire : inscription.CHSP+la-musique-spoliee@gmail.com 8.30-9.00: Welcome of participants 9.00-9.15: Introduction by Claire Andrieu and Jean-Marc Dreyfus 9.15-9.30: Address by Corinne Hershkovitch (lawyer, founding member of ‘Musique et Spoliations’) […] Read More

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UCLA to host its first-ever American Jewish Music Festival

January 24, 2020/By/InEvent Announcements and Recaps, Events/0 Comment

UCLA will host its first American Jewish Music Festival on March 1 under the banner “Music Crossing Boundaries.” The all-day event is funded by the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, with some additional support. It is co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for […] Read More

This Sephardic rabbi helps revive Judeo-Spanyol songs as hip-hop

January 22, 2020/By Andrew Muchin/InRincón Sefaradí/0 Comment

hen Magain David Sephardic Congregation of San Francisco arranged for monthly visits by retired Seattle Rabbi Simon Benzaquen two years ago, the small community knew it was hiring an experienced worship leader, cantor, scholar, dayan (rabbinical judge), sofer (scribe) and mohel (ritual circumciser). But a lyricist, recording artist, Sephardic music innovator and mentor to Jewish rappers, too? “It was definitely a […] Read More

Q&A: A Yiddish-speaking gumshoe with a tapping toe

January 22, 2020/ByLiz Harris/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Gale Kissin, 67, wears several hats. She not only sings and plays guitar and percussion in Mama Loshn, the Yiddish revival band she co-founded, but she’s spent decades working with attorneys as a private investigator. Though now “semi-retired,” the Sebastopol resident still takes on meaningful P.I. work and looks forward to a full recovery from recent hand […] Read More

Jewish music is alive and kicking

January 22, 2020/ByJewish Website/InArticles, Featured, Music/0 Comment

Music is an integral part of our life. It is always there, giving us what we need, when we need it. A lot of times when you connect to a song, it seems like someone has written that song just for you. Although Jewish music has been with us since biblical times, there are new […] Read More