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25 songs from local musicians to light up your Hanukkah nights

This J.-made Hanukkah playlist brings together some local Jewish artists with songs to set the mood for the holiday season.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

In ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish folk music family makes it big from Greenwich Village to Lilith Fair

Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel is full of familial drama, rock music history and lots of Yiddishkeit. Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish Music Feature of International Exposition

Jewish folk songs will be a feature in the International Music Exposition which opens here the end of June. The program of the exposition includes performances of Jewish religious music and folk songs ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

'You're Not My First Enemy': In Long-Lost Jewish Songs Of WWII, Pain And Defiance

Yiddish Glory is a newly recorded album of Jewish folk songs, documented during World War II but thought lost for decades, that matches their... In August 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, ...
Colorado Public Radio

Inaugural KlezKolorado festival celebrates Jewish culture and music amidst challenging times

More than a year ago, klezmer music lovers Raye Holab and Ben Sweet embarked on a “dreaming session” that ended in a bold idea — a multi-day Colorado festival dedicated to the Eastern European style ...
insider.si.edu

Jewish Folk Songs [sound recording]

Jewish folk songs of Palestine. Zirmu galim ; Artsa alinu -- Jewish folk songs of Eastern Europe. Farbenkt ; Mit a nodl ; Kegen gold fun zun ; Zhankoye Repository Loc. Smithsonian Institution, Center ...
LAist

Reviving 'Songs For The Jewish-American Jet Set'

Tikva Records was founded in 1947 as an independent Jewish record label. For the next 30 years, it would record an eclectic range of Jewish-American songs, including klezmer pop, cantorial singing, ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Jewish folk music meets bluegrass at Moline library event

Songwriter Lil' Rev performed a bluesy tribute to Jewish folk music he fondly refers to as "Jewgrass" on Wednesday at the Moline Public Library, 3210 41st St. His program "Fiddler on the Roof Meets O ...
Sun Sentinel

Connie Francis, a Parkland resident, recorded an album of Jewish songs in 1960

Connie Francis was a longtime Parkland resident whose 1960 filmed-in-Fort-Lauderdale romp “Where the Boys Are” is to Spring Break what “Jaws” is to shark fishing. Francis was among the first people ...
Jazz

26th Annual Jewish Music Fest with Yemen Blues

Yemen Blues does this via West African music and funk, while the composers of the Jewish Folk Music Society did the same thing using European art music before the Russian Revolution. They show how the ...
The New York Times

Pam Tanowitz’s Next Act: ‘I Need to Make a Jewish Dance’

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Tanowitz and the composer David Lang talk about how their new work is informed by biblical poetry, Israeli folk dance and their Jewish heritage. By ...