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This New Yiddish Kids’ Album Is Magical

JL;DR SUMMARY Jordan Wax has released "Pantakozak and Other New Yiddish Songs for Kids," an innovative children's album that celebrates Yiddish culture through music and storytelling. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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YiddishCultural HeritageKlezmerFolkloreBilingualChildren's MusicJordan WaxPantakozakNina WrightJeremy Barnes

Places mentioned

New Mexico, United States
"New Mexico-based Jordan Waxs Pantakozak and Other New Yiddish Songs for Kids, an English Yiddish childrens album that comes out today, does just that."
Moldova
"Wax traveled to Moldova to record with."
Uman, Cherkashchyna, Ukraine
"who led a terrible massacre of Jews in Uman, Ukraine in 1768. In the Yiddish versions, passed down by ear for 150 years, his character gradually morphed into a comical monster."

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