klezmer
Rise and Shine
What happens when 100 klezmer musicians from around the world gather for a photo op?
Ghetto Music
When Italians fell for klezmer, Francesco Spagnolo tuned them in to the forgotten sounds of their own people
Hidden Sympathies
A dubious portrait of Shostakovich as dissident has been debunked, but motifs in his work underscore his discord with Soviet power.
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How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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