With an energetic new director at the helm, 29-year-old accordionist Dmitri Gaskin, KlezCalifornia is embracing the veteran ...

Manuscripts and arrangements of music performed on Yiddish radio station WEVD sat in a basement for 40 years.

It’s not every day, even in New York City, that Yiddish enthusiasts can see a live, fully-staged performance of an opera ...

A collection of documents described as a treasure trove of Jewish music has been acquired by the New York Public Library, after being hidden in a cantor’s basement in Yonkers for 40 years.

The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst will once again host Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music from Thursday, July 10, through Sunday, July 13.

The Yiddish-inflected music with roots in Eastern Europe is old school, but the band is not: Its six members range in age from 10 to 16. The young musicians are members of the Klezmaniacs, a new ...

Because music helps people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia bring out memories, some Jews in South Florida are finding Yiddish songs effective.

A recently released album, ‘Lider Mit Palestine,’ features several artists and 17 original compositions — some modern, some ...

The goal is to bring together the Yiddish language and literary culture community and the thriving local Yiddish music scene ...

In addition to being the source of their matching outfits, the Barry Sisters’ approach of modernizing Yiddish music for a contemporary 1960s audience informs how The Shvesters arrange their own ...