Those of us who know very little about it imagine that folk music — old, untraceable, anonymous, simple, possibly even quaint — would be off in one corner of a large music room, while classical music ...

To her early 20th-century audience, Tsilye Dropkin’s Yiddish poetry was as shocking for its content as its form. A Russian-born poet who immigrated to New York City at the age of 25, Dropkin broke ...

In addition to being the source of their matching outfits, the Barry Sisters’ approach of modernizing Yiddish music for a contemporary 1960s audience informs how The Shvesters arrange their own ...

In summer 2020, when the world was in lockdown, I couldn’t stop watching a video that featured two young children — Dinah Slepovitch and Pinya Minkin — singing a Yiddish folk song about eating ...