When singers Polina Fradkin and Paulina Levi got 50,000 Instagram followers, they celebrated with a cake. But these days, they are really cooking. The Shvesters (the Yiddish word for “The Sisters”) now have 134,000 followers on Instagram and 24,500 on TikTok. In the history of Jewish music, female duos are fairly rare; Jewish female duos […]
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NYPL has acquired a unique collection of sheet music and documents that form part of the history of Jewish and Yiddish music broadcast on radio station WEVD. The collection of more than 3000 works performed live between 1927 and 1995 is now part of the library’s Dorot Jewish Division, and includes everything from Hasidic music […]
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I love you much too much. Ich Hob Zifeel Leib. Efim Alexandrov. Их хоб дих цу фил либ. Jewish music & Jewish song I love you much too much. Ich Hob Zifeel Leib. Songs of the Jewish Shtetle. Yiddish Songs & Jewish Folk Songs.Ефим Александров, Ef… SOPRANO Турецкого и Юрий Башмет – Ich […]
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Der Rebe Hot Geheysn Freilekh Zayn! · Yankele · Traditional L’esprit du Klezmer ℗ Action Musicale Yankele Released on: 2001-10-05
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The Chassidic drinking song Yoshke, performed at Maxwell Street Klezmer Band’s 30th Anniversary Concert on November 3, 2013 at the Old Town School of Folk Music, with all 28 past and present members of Maxwell Street Klezmer Band as well a representatives of the Junior Klezmer Orchestra. This track is featured on the band’s 2002 […]
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The FC Band, which features teens with and without disabilities, brings us the catchy “Get Lit.”
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Did you know that Dolly Parton’s song 9 to 5 was inspired by 9 to 5, a workplace feminist movement? In 1973 Ellen Cassedy founded the organization with the aim of bringing about fair pay and equal treatment for women in the workplace. 9 to 5 is so much more than a toe-tapping song! So, […]
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“La Vie En Rose” written by Édith Piaf, composed by Louiguy in 1945. This song, this woman – There’s no words that describe the FORCE that Édith Piaf was- you have to hear her roar and tremble. I LOVE singing in French, it’s as if a different part of myself wakes up- stronger, determined and […]
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Israeli soldier singing a Yiddish fighting song on his way to the front
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