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JTA After fighting cancer, klezmer legend Frank London is busier than ever before 18 Feb
Frank London, a seminal figure in Jewish music known for his work with The Klezmatics, has returned to the music scene with renewed fervor following a battle...
18 Feb
Forward For Finland's tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis 24 Jan
Finland's Jewish community, numbering about 1,500 today, traces its roots to Russian military conscripts in the 1850s. Historically integrated yet distinct, ...
24 Jan
JTA A.J. Weberman, famous for picking through Bob Dylan’s trash, shares his thoughts on ‘A Complete Unknown’ 9 Jan
A.J. Weberman, renowned for his controversial pursuit of Bob Dylan's personal insights through dumpster diving, shares his critical views on the new biopic "...
9 Jan
Forward How a son of Holocaust survivors joined a commune and helped to free 'Hurricane' Carter 19 Nov 2024
Sam Chaiton's memoir, "We Used to Dream of Freedom," weaves together the narratives of growing up as the child of Holocaust survivors and his role in the eff...
19 Nov 2024
JTA How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music 11 Nov 2024
The New York Public Library's Dorot Jewish Division has acquired a significant collection of 4,000 pieces of Jewish and Yiddish music, including cantorial mu...
11 Nov 2024
JTA How ‘uptown’ Jews fought to clean up the criminal underworld of the Lower East Side 5 Sep 2024
In his new book, "The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld," author Dan Slater explores the effo...
5 Sep 2024
JTA Meet the New Yorker tracing the 300-year history of the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, from Chernobyl to the Bronx 13 Aug 2024
Yitzchak Meyer Twersky, an IT specialist from Queens and an authority on the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, released a comprehensive book tracing the 300-year h...
13 Aug 2024
JTA The Jewish mother who became a crime boss in Gilded Age New York 9 Jul 2024
Fredericka Mandelbaum, a Jewish immigrant in 19th-century New York, transitioned from an impoverished street peddler to overseeing America's first major orga...
9 Jul 2024
Forward How two Jewish musicians turned front porches in Brooklyn into a vibrant music scene 1 Jul 2024
In Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, two Jewish musicians, Roy Nathanson and Aaron Lisman, have created vibrant music scenes on front porches during the pandemic. Natha...
1 Jul 2024
Forward How a pair of visionary Jews found a link between Jewish and Native American cultures 17 May 2024
Jerome Rothenberg, a renowned poet with Jewish roots, collaborated with composer Charlie Morrow for nearly 60 years, intertwining their Jewish and Indigenous...
17 May 2024