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On their album Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Ballads From the Yiddish Gothic, Jeremiah Lockwood and Ricky Gordon, performing as the duo Gordon Lockwood, conjure a bygone world.

May 15, 2023

“Di Froyen,” the debut EP by Katherine Bulthius, performing under the moniker Olke, sets to music the first three poems in Kadya Molodowsky’s cycle of the same name.

Apr 05, 2023

As the biannual Ashkenaz festival kicked off, so did the North American Premiere of Bas Sheve, a Yiddish opera, on August 31, 2022.

Jan 13, 2023

ZETS! is the second album of the Melbourne-based band, YID!

Dec 14, 2022

Kosmopolitn, the latest Tsvey Brider release from Borscht Beat Records, is a tribute to the social and cultural dynamism of turn-of-the-twentieth century Yiddish poetic life.

Oct 20, 2022

Isabel Frey reflects on the challenges and possibilities of performing Yiddish music as a Jewish performer in Germany and Austria beyond the insulated Berlin klezmer scene.

May 18, 2022

Mamaliga’s debut album is an exciting, subtle, and intricate addition to Boston’s klezmer offerings.

Feb 09, 2022

With an electric guitar, distortion, and hundred-year-old Yiddish lyrics, forshpil’s new album feeds the imagination with liberatory world-building.

Nov 14, 2021

The phenomenon of Corona songs in the frum world shows us that something quite new is happening with regard to Hasidic music.

Apr 08, 2021

Uri Schreter reviews two new albums from Daniel Kahn and Psoy Korolenko.

Feb 11, 2021