Posts Tagged “Yiddish”
The late Joe Schwartz put together a comprehensive list of all of his favorite Yiddish and Hebrew songs. Visit his site here and listen to this impressive collection.…
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Music festival season is almost upon us. Here are some great events for lovers of Jewish music:
Atlanta Jewish Music Festival, May 9-13. This festival emphasizes fresh, diverse, and engaging musical experiences with concerts, listening parties, and open mic events. Click here for more information.
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival, May 20-June 3, at the Pittsburgh …
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When the Idelsohn Society opened Tikva Records on December 1, the store turned a tiny slice of San Francisco’s Outer Mission into a 1950s-style vinyl record shop. When the Burton Sisters reunited last night on stage at Tikva, the neighborhood was transformed briefly into the Catskills
Roger Bennett, one of Idelsohn’s founders, summed up the …
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Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish is an ambitious romantic dramady, directed by Eve Annenberg, that retells the famous story with 55% of the dialogue in Yiddish- the first American film to do so in 70 years. The film made a sold-out debut at the New York Jewish Film Festival earlier this year and has won …
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Stan Daniels, a writer and producer from the Mary Tyler Moore Show and 8 time Emmy winner, was born to Jewish parents in Toronto and brought up around vaudeville. Here hs is in front of the camera, reciting Old Man River in perfect Yiddish to get the crowd pepped up before the show (some time …
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