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Yid­dish Chanukah Car­ols ris­es above the lev­el of spoof because of its com­mit­ted engage­ment with both the orig­i­nal and new mate­ri­als. Each track so that it set­tles com­fort­ably between Desser’s new Chanukah lyrics and the rec­og­niz­able Christ­mas original.

Dec 24, 2021

An inter­view with Nao­mi Sei­d­man, Chan­cel­lor Jack­man Pro­fes­sor of the Human­i­ties at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, and Basya Schechter, musi­cian and founder of Pharoah’s Daugh­ter, who are work­ing on their com­pelling project called The Bais Yaakov project.

Jun 05, 2019

May 22, 2019

Shim­mer­ing Lights by Yale Strom’s Bro­ken Con­sort is joy­ful lis­ten­ing that cuts through the dark­ness at any time of year. 

Apr 24, 2019

Klezmer singers and musi­cians gath­er in Berlin to make joy­ous new sound together.

Jan 29, 2019

Noam Green on Tsi­blele’s rad­i­cal­ly inti­mate sounds, and what it means to flag Jewish 

Feb 22, 2018

A new vol­ume of poet­ry that re-imag­ines Yid­dish folk song as con­fes­sion, polit­i­cal protest, and play­ful soundscape.

Apr 05, 2016

Lin Jal­dati was a sec­u­lar Dutch Jew who brought Yid­dish music to com­mu­nist East Ger­many. Now, Jew­lia Eisen­berg and David Shneer are reviv­ing her music and inves­ti­gat­ing her rev­o­lu­tion­ary life. 

Feb 28, 2016

Aus­tri­an shep­herd Hans Breuer on dri­ving refugees across the bor­der, and get­ting famous for singing Yid­dish songs. 

Feb 23, 2016

A Lit­vakus con­cert-cum-soci­olin­guis­tics-lec­ture dou­bles as a rev­o­lu­tion you can dance to. 

Jan 27, 2016