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    The Sounds of Summer

    It’s a great season for new Yiddish music

    byRokhl Kafrissen
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    Magical Love Songs

    Yiddish music that casts a spell

    byRokhl Kafrissen
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    A Yiddish Musical Treasury

    Pioneering folk music collector Ruth Rubin and the archives of ‘Sing Out!’ magazine

    byRokhl Kafrissen
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    The Queer Yiddish Musical Canon

    What to listen to this month while celebrating Pride

    byRokhl Kafrissen
  • Maria Ka
    Maria Ka
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    The Summer of Yiddish Songs

    From opera to cabaret to electronic music and, yes, klezmer

    byRokhl Kafrissen
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    The ‘Joy’ of Summer

    The season’s Yiddish music roundup

    byRokhl Kafrissen
  • Daniel Kahn
    Daniel Kahn
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    The Yiddish Bard of the 21st Century

    In his new album, Daniel Kahn is a lyric beggar at the Jewish cemetery

    byJake Marmer
  • Ruth Rubin
    Ruth Rubin
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    Let’s Fall in ‘Libe’

    Rokhl’s Golden City: Some of the best Yiddish love songs

    byRokhl Kafrissen
  • An image of the Yiddish singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell taken from his Facebook page
    An image of the Yiddish singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell taken from his Facebook page
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    The Opera Singer’s Yiddish Spirituals

    The winner of last year’s ‘Yiddish American Idol’ brings ‘historic African-American-Jewish music’ to life on his new record.

    byThe Scroll
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    ‘Go Down, Moses’: Engaging With My Complex Musical Heritage at Passover

    As a black classical singer, I avoided singing negro spirituals—until Yiddish music helped me hear them in a new way as a Jew

    byAnthony Russell
  • The Andrews Sisters (left to right: Maxene, Patty, and LaVerne) go over a song together on May 7, 1945.(AP)
    The Andrews Sisters (left to right: Maxene, Patty, and LaVerne) go over a song together on May 7, 1945.(AP)
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    How One Half-Yiddish, Half-English Song Connected Generations of My Family

    ‘Bei Mir Bistu Shein’ always reminded my mother of her father. And now that my mother is gone, it reminds me of her.

    byJeffrey Weinstock
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