Sunrise, sunset, it’s hard to believe it, but this month, the Fiddler on the Roof” (“Fiddler Oifn Daj”)movie turned 50(!) years old. The movie, which was based on the Broadway play that opened on September 22, 1964, at the Imperial Theatre, Fiddler ran for 3242 performances, achieving the longest run for a musical The tale of Tevye, played by […]
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Thanks to the Jewish holiday of Shavuot and the Torah, Mount Sinai is the best-known mountain in Jewish history. If the husband-and-wife bluegrass team of Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff continue their climb through the music world, their Nefesh Mountain band may be the next mountain the Jewish and secular world is buzzing about. Their third full-length […]
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Der Rebbe Elimelekh 25 versions from all over the world presented by SaveTheMusic. “Der Rebbe Elimelekh” is a Yiddish song written in 1927 by Moyshe Nadir and loosely based on the song Old King Cole. 1. Mongolia: Amalia Rubin – Der Rebbe Elimelech 2. Austria: Theodore Bikel – Der Rebe Elimelech 3. USA: Itzshak Perlman – As […]
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Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is one of the three major pilgrimage festivals of ancient Israel and commemorates the Exodus from Egypt. Its name comes from the miracle in which God “passed over” the houses of the Israelites during the tenth plague. Centered on the family or communal celebration of the seder (ritual meal), Passover […]
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INTRODUCTION Isabel Frey is a Vienna-based activist and musician who recently released a debut album, Millennial Bundist. Faith Hillis recently caught up with Frey on Zoom to ask about millennials’ rediscovery of the Bund, the place of Yiddish music in contemporary left-wing politics, and Frey’s creative rewritings of revolutionary anthems. Faith Hillis: Can you tell me about your background and […]
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This article presents the research carried out on Sephardic Jewish religiosity and its musical practices, for which a methodology was developed from a qualitative approach, guided by the inductive method.This in order to achieve a description of the reality studied within the context of two Jewish communities of Cali andVillavicencio.The results presented here are a […]
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Ever wonder who’s behind some of the most popular Christmas songs in the world? While it only seems natural that Christmas songs would be written by those who actually celebrate the holiday, many popular Christmas songs were actually written by Jewish people. Regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas or not, though, here are 10 Christmas […]
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מיט די חנוכּה־ און פּסח־לידער איז שטענדיק אינטערעסאַנט צו פֿאַרגלײַכן ווי אַזוי פֿאַרשידענע ייִדישע עטנישע גרופּעס האָבן אײַנגעגלידערט די אוראַלטע לידער און זיי צוגעפּאַסט צו די מוזיקאַלישע סטילן פֿון זייער אַרום. מיר הייבן אָן מיט אַ פּיוט, וואָס איז מסתּמא דער סאַמע עלטסטער; ווי אַלע באַקאַנטע פּיוטים, האָבן די ייִדן פֿון פֿאַרשידענע לענדער געזונגען „מעוז […]
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UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music of American Jewish experience. Housed in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the new Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience will foster artistic creativity, scholarship, performance and other cultural expression, thanks to a $6.75 million gift from the Lowell Milken […]
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