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Tag: Jewish Folk Music

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Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever

Jennifer A. Stern in Forward · 26 Feb

Sofia Magid, a Soviet-Jewish musicologist active between 1928 and 1938, made significant contributions to preserving Jewish folk music by recording a rich collection of Yiddish songs and Hebrew chants in Belarus and Ukraine.

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In ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish folk music family makes it big from Greenwich Village to Lilith Fair

Gabe Friedman in JTA · 7 Aug 2024

"The Singer Sisters" is a debut novel by Sarah Seltzer depicting a Jewish folk music family's journey from Massachusetts to Greenwich Village in the 1960s, touching upon themes of family drama, rock music history, and Jewish identity.

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Jewish and African-American folk music traditions to entwine at the Brooklyn Fiddle Summit

Julia Gergely in JTA · 9 Apr 2024

The Brooklyn Fiddle Summit will bring together the klezmer virtuosity of violinist Zo Aqua and the African-American folk music of the Ebony Hillbillies for a unique performance in New York City, exploring the shared themes of these seemingly disparate genres.

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Listen to a passionate performance of Yiddish art song

ZGolden in Forward · 5 Jul 2023

Yiddish art song is a genre of music that originated in St. Petersburg in the early 20th century with the goal of creating a national Jewish music.

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KlezKanada and Ashkenaz Festival: How Zoom is helping to revive Jewish folk music in Canada

The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner · 23 Aug 2021

COVID-19 has pushed KlezKanada and the Ashkenaz Festival to adapt with virtual programming, encouraging a broadening and thriving interest in Yiddish and Jewish folk music.