As the African-American singer and political activist Paul Robeson told Hasia Diner, a historian of American Jewry, responding to a question about why he performs Yiddish music like “Eli ...

(JTA) — Two important cultural institutions that celebrate the mamaloshen — the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and the Congress for Jewish Culture — are each offering an online gift for ...

For a noted scholar of Yiddish Studies, this was highly unusual. "I was familiar with the Holocaust music from the Warsaw Ghetto, from the Vilna Ghetto, from places where Jews were interned during ...