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History and Origins of Sephardic Music

July 16, 2019/By/InRincón Sefaradí/1 Comment

Sephardic music is thought to have originated from the Jewish population living in medieval Spain and Portugal. Following their expulsion from Spain and Portugal in 1492 and 1496, respectively, the Sephardic Jews spread across North Africa and the Balkans. Because of the geographic proximity of Morocco to Spain, a large portion of the Sephardic Jews […] Read More

“Mir Basaraber”, by Klezmer Alliance

July 16, 2019/By/InCD of The Week, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Klezmer Alliance stands for dance grooves that make your feet tingling just as for inventive and gorgeous Yiddish songs that gladden your heart, performed by a passionate and experienced ensemble. HOT is the voice of Klezmer Alliance: the intense and charismatic singer Efim Chorny from Kishinev, Moldova, whose presence on stage and spontaneous humour are […] Read More

Musical Traditions of the Ashkenazi Jews

July 16, 2019/By/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Hassidic music The oral and written documentation of all Hassidic musical traditions found in Israel has been one of the seminal projects of the JMRC since its inception. Researchers Yaakov Mazor and Andre Hajdu started to record live events at most Hassidic courts in Israel in the mid-1960s. This collection has grown constantly, enriched by […] Read More

Preview: Stutschewsky’s 13 Jewish Folk Tunes

July 16, 2019/By/InMusic/0 Comment

In the framework of the JMRC project dedicated to the life and work of cellist, composer, researcher and pedagogue Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky (1891-1982) we are glad to launch an online world-premiere recording of Stutschewsky’s forgotten work 13 Jewish Folk Tunes by cellist and researcher Racheli Galay and composer and pianist Amit Weiner. This early work from 1924 shows […] Read More

Jewish musician who published over 150 volumes dies at 86

July 16, 2019/By/InNews/0 Comment

Musicologist and publisher Velvel Pasternak, who published more than 150 volumes of Jewish music, has died. Pasternak, who also conducted and arranged music, died on Tuesday in New York City at the age of 86. He founded Tara Publications in 1971. The goal of the company was the publication, preservation and dissemination of the heritage […] Read More

Almost 100,000 people have enjoyed this sensual version of “Belz, Main Shtetele Beltz”. Have you seen it yet?

July 15, 2019/By/InFeatured, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Tango in Yiddish – Richard Gere / Jennifer Lopez A delicious combination of the sublime excerpt from the movie “Do we dance?”, With Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, with the famous song in Yiddish “Belz, Mayn Shtetele Belz”. https://www.facebook.com/communaute.juive.9/videos/671339693018136/ Read More

Isaac Goodfriend Sings Sholom Secunda

July 9, 2019/By/InCD of The Week, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Isaac Goodfriend was born in January of 1924 in a small town in Poland, forty-four kilometers south of Łódź. He was raised in an ultraorthodox Jewish household until the war broke out when he was 15 and his whole world was turned upside down. Cantor Goodfriend recounts losing his family during the Holocaust, what life […] Read More

Music of the Jewish People: Quintessentially Global and Disaporic

July 9, 2019/By/InArticles/0 Comment

Jewish music and culture is quintessentially global and diasporic. Despite being a primarily insular, rather than evangelical, ethnic, cultural and religious grouping, a history of suppression, discrimination, expulsion and genocide has forced Jews into continual waves of exodus, dispersing them as migrants and refugees around the world. As a result, Jewish music, while maintaining a […] Read More

Yiddish Summer Weimar 2019. The Weimar Republic of Yiddishland July 12 – August 17

July 9, 2019/By/InFeatured, News/0 Comment

Registration for Yiddish Summer Weimar workshops is open and advance ticket sales have begun! In 2019 we recognize the 100th anniversary of the beginnings of the Weimar Republic. To celebrate the almost unimaginable outpouring of creative energy throughout Europe in that era, our special topic this year will be “The Weimar Republic of Yiddishland” – […] Read More

How Sweden Became the Epicenter of Yiddish Children’s Media

July 9, 2019/By/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

In 1999, Yiddish was declared an official national minority language in Sweden, alongside Finnish, Romani, Meänkieli, and the Sami languages. There’s federal funding in Sweden for media produced in all its national minority languages—so Sweden, of all places, is now a major source of new Yiddish children’s books, TV cartoons, web media, and music videos. How did Yiddish get this […] Read More