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We are delighted to announce that our exhibit JEWS ON VINYLwhich was developed in partnership with the amazing Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is moving to Los Angeles in 2010. More details to come, but the exhibit which has had over 60,000 attendees at the CJM will be leaping into the Skirball Cultural …
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One belated link from the Lincoln Center show: Idelsohn co-founder David Katznelson rocks it with Arturo O’ Farrill on the amazing Abe Velez’s Beyond the Pale Show on WBAI. Velez (right) is a remarkable bloke who interviews in an intimate style.…
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Jody Rosen, great friend of the Idelsohn Society and the gent who put our Jewface CD together took Sophie Tucker back to where she belongs on Sunday–the front page of the New York Times Arts Section. Rosen’s brilliant feature on the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” coincides with the release of a new anthology …
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“Shalom aleichem and buenas noches.” So began one of the most memorable nights in the history of the Idelsohn Society.
After months of planning and rehearsal, the Idelsohn Society brought the 1961 album Mazel Tov Mis Amigos— a collection of Yiddish theater tunes gone Latin– back to vibrant life on the esteemed stage of …
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The album Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos dates from a time in the late 1940s through the mid-’60s when Latin music was hugely popular in this country’s Jewish community. Albums blending the two cultures sold millions of copies. One of them, which put Jewish classics to a Latin beat, has just been reissued — and is …
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