The concert where Paul Robeson was warned not to sing in Yiddish
When Soviet government leaders invited the singer to give a concert, he did something they didn't expect.
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Yiddish World MLK Day concert to include civil rights songs and Yiddish folk songs
The event will take place in a synagogue where Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke
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Yiddish World Smithsonian festival to include Yiddish concert, blintzes and pickling workshops
The annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrates contemporary cultural traditions from around the world.
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Yiddish World See what’s going on in the new Yiddish community calendar
The calendar includes both in-person and online events, both in English and in Yiddish
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Yiddish World This upcoming Yiddish concert is a clarion call for a better world
Josh Waletzky’s musical work will be performed in New York on March 26 by leading Yiddish singers
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Culture After outcry from Jewish fans, Taylor Swift adds dates that don’t fall on Shabbat
‘Looks like I’ll get to see more of your beautiful faces than previously expected,’ Swift wrote
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Culture Is it too late now for Justin Bieber to say sorry … for doing a Nazi salute on stage?
The pop icon has some teshuva in his future
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Culture At the birthplace of the ballistic missile, a concert for peace
In its first appearance abroad since 2019, the New York Philharmonic performed at a German music festival located in a former Nazi munitions factory.
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Yiddish װי די סאָװעטישע געהײם־פּאָליצײ האָט נאָכגעשפּירט די ייִדישע ליטעראַטןHow the Soviet secret police kept surveillance on Yiddish writers
נײַע אַרכיװאַלע דאָקומענטן אַנטפּלעקן אַ ים מיט מסירות, װאָס אײניקע ייִדישע ליטעראַטן האָבן געשריבן אױף זײערע קאָלעגעס.
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