In 1911, the Yiddish operetta Shir Hashirim: The Song of Love premiered in New York City, and became immensely popular, performed on stages around the world for decades. The musical comedy, composed ...

Between the late '30s and 2006, the number of Yiddish stage theaters in the Big Apple sadly dwindled from twelve to one. Two of the last remaining institutions were the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, ...

Candy Cohn used to always speak with her mother, Lillian Cohn, in English, with a few words here and there in Yiddish. Then one day, Lillian, of Delray Beach, started singing a beautiful Yiddish love ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

(New York Jewish Week) – Like many great ideas, “The Mamales,” a Yiddish singing group, began on a summer night at a bar on the Lower East Side. The women who make up the trio, Maya Jacobson, Raquel ...

Celebration trumps mourning at the return of Yidstock, the 10-year-old festival of new Yiddish music. AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Josh Dolgin, the Canadian rapper and klezmer musician who performs ...

“My grandfather spoke Hebrew, Palestinian Arabic and Palestinian Yiddish,” he said. “I watched him move seamlessly between ...

Part of Central Park’s iconic SummerStage series, “New York Sings Yiddish” will take place on June 14. (New York Jewish Week) — This summer, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to hear their ...

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...

The holiday of Purim has often been called "the Jewish Carnavale," with the joys of song, laughter and drama folded into one, like tangy, fruit-filled hamantashen. That's just the recipe for a ...

Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and ...