For the past decade Anthony Russell, a vocalist, composer, and arranger specializing in music in the Yiddish language, has identified other parallels between African American spirituals and Ashkenazi ...

Musicologist Uri Schreter shows how postwar trends played out on the dance floor. Of course we also wanted to dance to rock ‘n’ roll and needed musicians who could handle Sinatra for our parents’ ...

More than a year ago, klezmer music lovers Raye Holab and Ben Sweet embarked on a “dreaming session” that ended in a bold idea — a multi-day Colorado festival dedicated to the Eastern European style ...

Anthony Russell is a multidisciplinary artist working in the medium of Yiddish language and culture. His work in Ashkenazi Jewish musical forms led to an exploration of his own ethnic roots through ...

(The Conversation) — “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway play that brought Jewish life to stages around the world. The 1964 musical gives audiences a window ...

There’s nothing partisan or antisemitic about recognizing obstacles to diversity in Jewish life, writes the director of the Jewish Language Project. (JTA) — As a linguist who studies Jewish language, ...

As vocalist Anthony Russell learned a Yiddish piece about a woeful traveler far away from their family, he noticed it felt like another, very culturally different song — the African American spiritual ...

(The Conversation) — Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there’s a vast landscape of Jewish cultures around the world – and represented in the US. ...