Singer Debbie Friedman died Sunday of complications of pneumonia, but her progressive, feminist influence on Jewish folk music will live on. According to the Times obituary, the 59-year-old Friedman ...

Notes from the summer camp office are not usually a good omen, especially when they begin with the words “from your mother.” But for 16-year-old music producer Aviad Poznansky, this past summer at ...

“Jewgrass" is the fusion of bluegrass music with Hebrew lyrics and is played by a diverse group of old-time and bluegrass musicians. iStockphoto This Passover, my friend Lester Feder sat at the head ...

Black Ox Orkestar, a quartet assembled in Montreal in 2000 to explore the sound of the Jewish diaspora, has always been one project among many for its members. Lead singer and songwriter Scott Gilmore ...

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 ...

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, ...

01. Mate'ka - 6:35; 02. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - 4:05; 03. Been in the Pen So Long - 3:09; 04. Chili'lo (Lament) - 3:54; 05. Rav's Nigun - 2:56; 06. Old Paint - 4:55; 07. Manthi-Ki - ...

It seems the oddest of musical pairings: a simple Jewish folk song called "Hinay Ma Tov," thought to be of Syrian origin, and a raw-edged, guitar-driven blues framework. What's more, the song has just ...

Prokofiev used actual Jewish folk songs in his Overture on Hebrew Themes, even though he usually believed that composers should write their own melodies. Clarinetist Todd Palmer joins a group of ...

Twenty-five years ago, musician David Chevan got the idea to give local Jewish families something to do on Dec. 25, a day reserved for the Christmas holiday. "There's not a heck of a lot to do on Dec.

Druze tribesmen, now being formed into a unit in the Israeli Army, have participated in the first Hebrew folk-dance and song festival organized by the Army at a large training camp “somewhere in ...