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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

Jewish languages, Jewish music, and the anthropology of Judaism

January 22, 2020/ByFrank Alvarez-Pereyre/InArticles, Featured, Music/0 Comment

A title uniting topics and fields that are often dealt with separately may seem paradoxical. When associated, these topics are generally treated as legitimate but distinct chapters in a history of Judaism or a presentation of communities. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of twenty years of research, which drawing on […] Read More

Dug Gezang Fin Mayn Harts: Tango Oyf Yiddish

January 21, 2020/By/InCD of The Week/0 Comment

Singer and indefatigable promoter of Yiddish language and culture in his home town Berlin, Karsten Troyke does not care so much about where the tango originally comes from. His distinctive style refers to the Jewish theatre and cabaret song of the Twenties and early Thirties just as to the renaissance of the Yiddish ‘Schlager’ ofn […] Read More

The Milken Archive of Jewish Music Turns 30 in 2020

January 16, 2020/By/InArticles, Featured, Music/0 Comment

2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the Milken Archive’s founding, a milestone we’ll be acknowledging and celebrating throughout the year. We’ll catch up with some of the artists who performed on Milken Archive recordings to see how the experience influenced their careers and reflect on how music—and Jewish music—has changed since that time. Founder Lowell […] Read More

Celebrate Diversity and Unity through story and song: Soul To Soul

January 15, 2020/By/InEvents, Featured, Music, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Soul to Soul is the electrifying and emotionally captivating theatrical concert that follows the experiences of two minority peoples and their paths to America’s promise of freedom—overcoming segregation, prejudice, and economic hardship. An event not to be missed. For the first time, this year’s Soul to Soul will feature singers from the Oscar- and Grammy-nominated IMPACT Repertory Theatre. The […] Read More

Moti Giladi: ‘My Way’ in Yiddish (2007)

January 6, 2020/By/InMusic, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Moti Giladi sings “My Way” in Yiddish (Mayn veg) at the Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw: “Singer’s Warsaw” in Warsaw, Poland, in 2007. The festival, which has been taking place since 2004, is named after the prominent Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer [1902–1991], who was born in Poland at the turn of the 20th century. Singer was named […] Read More

Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” in Yiddish!

December 27, 2019/By/InFeatured, Music/0 Comment

On YouTube in honor of today’s December 16th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven here’s the Yiddish adaptation and the new choral adaptation of his “Ode to Joy” from his Ninth Symphony “Brider” (“Brothers”) Performed by the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor. For more information about the JPPC including our upcoming concerts […] Read More

Upcoming Concert: Ikh Zing: The Yiddish Tradition

December 27, 2019/By/InEvents/0 Comment

Preservation New Jersey presents IKH ZING: The Yiddish Tradition, a celebration of Yiddish culture from Europe and the Americas through song, performed by The Murad – Zinger Duo featuring Nicole Murad, vocalist and and Pablo Zinger, piano. The program will include old traditional songs, favorites from Poland and Ukraine such as Oyfn Pripetchik and Kinder Yorn, humorous songs, ancient ballads, […] Read More

Day Two: STM Presents “Hanukke Oy Hanukke a Yom Tev a Sheiner”

December 23, 2019/By/InMusic/0 Comment

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Day One: SaveTheMusic Presents Hanukke Oy Hanukke a Yom Tev a Sheiner

December 22, 2019/By/InMusic, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער פֿאָלקסכאָר Binyumen Schaechter, conductor בנימין שעכטער, דיריגענט Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejppc Website: http://www.TheJPPC.org Contact: information@TheJPPC.org Filmed live in performance October 14, 2018 • Merkin Concert Hall, NYC as part of the encore concert of “To Everything There Is a Season: The Year in Yiddish Song” (World Premiere: June […] Read More