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 ...

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 ...

Robeson was fluent in Russian and many other languages. He loved singing Yiddish songs and recorded several of them. He soon became close with Mikhoels and even more so with Feffer. In 1949 ...

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 ...