“Klezmer”

I created Radiant Others way back in 2017 to share casual, in-depth, wide-ranging conversations with musicians, dancers, scholars, actors, and poets. My dream is that our listeners get mesmerized by our Yiddish world—and inspired to invest themselves, to do the work to create a place for themselves in it. 

Jun 08, 2026

These two new releases stand out as shining achievements of the second wave of the American klezmer revival/revitalization movement.

Feb 06, 2026

Klezcadia’s inaugural 2024 festival was fully hybrid, COVID-cautious, and included daytime workshops and evening concerts with a variety of West Coast klezmer luminaries and Yiddish teachers.

Aug 08, 2024

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

Despite the shifting status and popularity of this Ashkenazi instrumental music and its musicians, Joel Rubin is, surprisingly, the first researcher to devote serious and sustained attention to one of its most important and productive periods: New York in the 1920s, and in particular the remarkable—and nowadays canonical—recordings of its two best-known and most influential figures, Dave Tarras (1895/7-1989) and Naftule Brandwein (1884-1963).

Jan 26, 2022

Yael Horowitz and Ira Khonen Temple talk queer Yiddishkayt, collage, and masoyre in Temple's new album.

Feb 02, 2021

What happens when you move a klezmer festival online? Ekaterina Kuznetsova reviews Yiddish culture in the era of COVID-19 at Shtetl Berlin 2020.

Jan 19, 2021

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

Jan 29, 2019

Anthony Russell, in collaboration with Veretski Pass (Joshua Horowitz on piano, Cookie Segelstein on fiddle, and Stuart Brotman on cello), intertwines Jewish Eastern Europe folk music and African American spiritual traditions. 

Nov 06, 2018

Zisl Slepovitch of the band Litvakus on klezmer, gathering stories, and growing up in Belarus. 

Nov 19, 2015

Daniel Kahn talks about his musical influences, how all of his languages interact with each other in his songs, and what it means to “tradapt” a song across languages and time.

Oct 01, 2015