VIDEO: In honor of Petula Clark’s 90th birthday — a hilarious Yiddish take on the song ‘Downtown’
The clever lyrics in this clip, subtitled in English, were written by the bestselling author of 'Born to Kvetch,' Michael Wex
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Yiddish World This Yiddish song expressing thanks for the harvest is perfect for Thanksgiving
"The Song Of Bread" praises a way of life in which people can eat foods that were produced in their own fields.
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Yiddish World Why songwriter Josh Waletzky called his elegy for 9/11 ‘One World’
One World Trade Center — the taller of the two towers that were obliterated — had special meaning for Waletzky
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Yiddish World VIDEO: The powerful ‘Ballad of September 11’ (in Yiddish with English subtitles)
Singer Lucette van den Berg performs the song composed by the late songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
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Music He preserved Ukrainian Jewish culture — before, during and after the Shoah
Elena Yakovich’s ‘Song Searcher’ examines how Moyshe Beregovsky recorded Yiddish folksongs and oral traditions
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Music A lost Yiddish opera complete, and in performance, at last
How a composer, librettist and historian filled in the blanks on the missing masterpiece 'Bas Sheve'
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Music Meet the musicians turning old Yiddish poems into 21st-century songs
Two new albums reimagine a centuries-old tradition of adapting poetry to music
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Yiddish World Now streaming: Musician’s fascinating journey to find Ukrainian Jewish folksongs
In the 1920s, after the horrific pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution, a Jewish musician and ethnomusicologist named Moyshe Beregovsky, also known as Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovskii, travelled across Ukraine with a phonograph in hand, seeking to record the authentic Yiddish music of Ukrainian Jewry. Among the hundreds of songs that he collected were Yiddish folk…
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