Noted violinist Jake Shulman-Ment will perform a klezmer concert from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 23, at Congregation ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe, was once spoken by tens of thousands of Jews in Los Angeles before largely ...

At the Orchard Estate assisted living facility in Woodbury, New York, residents hum along to the klezmer music familiar to many Jews of their generation. The Yiddish-inflected music with roots in ...

An interview with Jarosław Bester, founder of the Bester Quartet (formerly the Cracow Klezmer Band) – the band that heralded a new wave of Jewish music in Poland. The year 2017 will mark the 20 th ...

All this hard work has paid off. Slepovitch’s klezmer band, Litvakus, has been performing tunes from Magid’s recordings for years.As the group’s name suggests, they specialize in Litvak ...

(JTA) — A forecasted low of -16 degrees in the Twin Cities on Thursday has the stage set perfectly for two frozen Jewish firsts — a Klezmer on Ice festival and a synagogue-run skating rink.

The day’s programming concluded with a performance of live Yiddish seltzer-themed Klezmer music, titled “The Seltzer Klezmer Spritz-tacular,” by The Workers Circle. But the return of the Golden Siphon ...

Since 1994, musicians and singers of the Junior Klezmer Orchestra have studied the art of Klezmer-traditional Eastern European Jewish music and Yiddish song-with members of the Maxwell Street Klezmer ...

About Alpert Alpert has been a transformative figure in the renaissance of East European Jewish klezmer music and Yiddish culture since the 1970s and is a National Heritage Fellow of the United ...