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On their album Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Bal­lads From the Yid­dish Goth­ic, Jere­mi­ah Lock­wood and Ricky Gor­don, per­form­ing as the duo Gor­don Lock­wood, con­jure a bygone world.

May 15, 2023

“Di Froyen,” the debut EP by Kather­ine Bulth­ius, per­form­ing under the moniker Olke, sets to music the first three poems in Kadya Molodowsky’s cycle of the same name.

Apr 05, 2023

As the bian­nu­al Ashke­naz fes­ti­val kicked off, so did the North Amer­i­can Pre­mière of Bas Sheve, a Yid­dish opera, on August 31, 2022.

Jan 13, 2023

ZETS! is the sec­ond album of the Mel­bourne-based band, YID!

Dec 14, 2022

Kos­mopolitn, the lat­est Tsvey Brid­er release from Borscht Beat Records, is a trib­ute to the social and cul­tur­al dynamism of turn-of-the-twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry Yid­dish poet­ic life.

Oct 20, 2022

Isabel Frey reflects on the chal­lenges and pos­si­bil­i­ties of per­form­ing Yid­dish music as a Jew­ish per­former in Ger­many and Aus­tria beyond the insu­lat­ed Berlin klezmer scene.

May 18, 2022

Mama­li­ga’s debut album is an excit­ing, sub­tle, and intri­cate addi­tion to Boston’s klezmer offerings.

Feb 09, 2022

With an elec­tric gui­tar, dis­tor­tion, and hun­dred-year-old Yid­dish lyrics, for­sh­pil’s new album feeds the imag­i­na­tion with lib­er­a­to­ry world-building.

Nov 14, 2021

The phe­nom­e­non of Coro­na songs in the frum world shows us that some­thing quite new is hap­pen­ing with regard to Hasidic music.

Apr 08, 2021

Uri Schreter reviews two new albums from Daniel Kahn and Psoy Korolenko.

Feb 11, 2021