The lyrics are a nod to an old Yiddish counting riddle; Korolenko’s lively melody recalls that famous folk tune. Several songs offer ground-level, vivid descriptions of the massacres in Babi Yar ...

Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer called them “the Sherlock Holmeses of Yiddish folk songs” for their investigations of Jewish music. We would gather by the piano in my grandparents ...

This film is the story of a mans lifelong search for authentic Yiddish folk music and of his unique archive which was presumed to be lost forever Moyshe Beregovsky a musician and scholar ...

Chava Alberstein sets out to interview those last writers of Yiddish poetry, to hear their poems and stories. Along the way, she sings a collection of Yiddish folk songs.

The Wax cousins are true students of folk music ... cultural pollination with the rhythms of Yiddish’s diasporic homes," his site notes. The music here sounds like an overflow from deep ...