Songs that describe the plight of a particular group can sometimes become the soundtrack for a different plight for a different people. “Eli, Eli,” a Yiddish song first popularized in the ...

In 1949, the American Communist activist was invited by the Soviet government to give a huge concert in Moscow.

The new Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection at the Workers Circle unlocks the joys and sorrows of the Jewish past, writes Chana’s grandson. (JTA) — When I was younger, my family sang ...

The classes will be taught in English. In the course “Seasons in Yiddish Song,” the Yiddish instructor and singer Paula Teitelbaum will introduce students to folk songs that were passed down ...

They all belonged to a generation of acculturated Polish Jews, with virtually no ties to traditional Jewish culture and little connection to period Yiddish culture. To a large extent, this group of ...