People who want to learn more about Yiddish culture can now sign up for several online courses at YIVO. The classes will be taught in English. In the course “Seasons in Yiddish Song,” the Yiddish ...

In the midst of the Second World War, a team of ethnomusicologists from the Kiev Cabinet for Jewish Culture, led by the folklorist Moisei Beregovsky, collected ...

Long-lost Yiddish songs tell stories of Soviet Jews during the Second World War. Sophie Milman’s grandmother was in her early teens when she fled from Ukraine to Kazakhstan with her mother and younger ...

When Anna Shternshis stumbled on to a collection of Yiddish songs in the late 1990s, at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kiev, she had no measure of their value. Upon revisiting the ...

An unimaginable series of unlikely events led to the discovery of the rare and revealing songs from World War II. BOSTON (JTA) — In the despair of the Soviet Union’s fierce World War II battles ...

Ruth Rubin devoted most of her life to preserving a Jewish folk song tradition that seemed destined to die. Now, a New York-based organization is making sure it survives permanently by creating a ...

Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places to which they spread. It is the language of socialists and capitalists, the Partisans who fought the Nazis and most of the ...

In August 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, a 10-year-old Jewish orphan named Valya Roytlender sang a song called "My Mother's Grave" to a Soviet ethnomusicologist in Bratslav, Ukraine.

Brooklyn-based musician Ira Khonen Temple blends Yiddish, klezmer and trans experience — and is resonating with a new generation of queer Jews.

A group of klezmer musicians was jamming in Lower Manhattan, when its fiddler suddenly stopped and encouraged a preteen ...

People have been responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways - some by donating money to humanitarian projects, others by protesting. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs ...

As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...