From my friend Daniel Kahn , a dark and funny new video for Love Lays Low , off his newest CD with the Painted Bird, Bad Old Songs . . ...

The Washington Post brings us an interesting chart from the Pew Research Center. The chart tracks language presence in the United States fr...

Yiddish Murder Ballads Another terrific post from Itzik Gottesman's Yiddish Song of the Week . This one features a recording of Leah (...

A rare Yiddish-only, evening program at YIVO, this Thursday at 7. Not to be missed.  Dr. Michael Steinlauf (Gratz College) will be speakin...

You know no one love/hates talking 'identity' more than I do. So I was thrilled to find out today that I was invited to take part in...

Gevaldik... And just because we're talking about shit I love, of course, there's this:

A friend alerted me to this the other day: It’s an Israeli group called Kleibedik (it's a pun on Klezmer and leybedik [lively]...

Couple interesting things popped up in the feed this weekend: A new blog by an African-American Jewish man living in Crown Heights calle...

Exciting news, klez fans. The New York Klezmer Series  returns to the  Stephen Wise Free Synagogue next Tuesday. It's  curated by the on...

(This is a guest post by Asya Fruman, in honor of the memory of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, z"l . Asya is  a young translator from Kha...