My Yiddisha Mame Lyrics Jack Yellen (1892 – 1991), Music Lew Pollack (1895 – 1946) Jack Yellen was born in Poland on July 6, 1892. When he was five years old, his family immigrated to America and settled in Buffalo, New York. He started to write lyrics when he was a teenager. The lyrics of […]
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Safed (also known as Tzfat, Zfat or Safed etc.) is a rather small city located in northern Israel, 900 meters (3200 feet) above sea level in the High Galilee mountains, which offers magnificent views. Its past is very rich and the city was founded in 70 AD, it flourished in the 16th century, when many […]
Read More“Bei Mir Bist Du Sheyn”, played by Isaac (11) and Nora (8), music fans thanks to his father Nicholas, originally from Seoul, South Korea, according to the biography of his YouTube channel, Isaac et Nora.
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The stage was set. The musicians played. The featured performer read Yiddish poems accompanied by klezmer music. The crowd was excited. I was, too. The whole experience gave off the vibe of being in a club. Except we weren’t. We were in the multipurpose room at Temple Mishkon Tephilo in Venice for an afternoon event […]
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Abraham Goldfaden, the “father of modern Yiddish theater,” was born in Russia (today’s Ukraine) on this date in 1840. Goldfaden was a poet in Hebrew and Yiddish, many of whose poems were set to music and became popular songs. In 1876 he built upon his popularity to launch the world’s first professional Yiddish theater troupe […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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/
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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 […]
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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 […]
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