Listen to this performance of Loyb, a poem by Chava Rosenfarb, a survivor of the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, set to

Wonderful video of Olga Mieleszcsuk and great instrumentalists performing “Rivkele – Rebecca” Yiddish tango. This was Polish Jewish composer Zygmunt Białostocki’s most beloved

Helen’s Yiddish Dance Page is a website offering extensive resources on the dances of Jews of Eastern Europe. Watch a short dance

The Satirical World of Dzigan and Schumacher, the Most Famous Yiddish Comedy Duo of the 20th Century. This presentation by

Boston-based klezmer band Mamaliga plays a wonderful rendition of one of their original tunes, Rafaele’s Bulgar.

Newish Jewish, at Kossar’s and Beyond. This article by Hannah Goldfield in The New Yorker addresses the challenges and successes of Jewish food stores in

Improve your Yiddish comprehension with easy news briefs from The Forward. Called Tshikavesn (“tidbits”), short news items are accompanied by an audio version read

Accordionist Geoff Berner plays and sings a Yiddish version of Petula Clark’s 1964 hit Downtown. Translated into Yiddish with wit and humor by

Enjoy a lecture-performance about klezmer violin with Abigale Reisman on fidl and Hankus Netsky on piano, at Rockport Music’s Concert View series as performed in

In memory of Pete “Klezmer Fats” Sokolow, who died in December 2022, listen to Kenahora Klezmer Ensemble (formerly Kapelye), with Pete

What did our great-grandparents eat for breakfast? An interesting panel discussion on Eastern-European Jewish culture from The Forward.

Enjoy this video of a presentation by Ayelet Brinn on A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American

“The History of Yiddish” by Mordecai Walfish presents a broad history of the Yiddish language, with numerous hot links to enable you

Check out a swinging version of Abi Gezunt, performed by klezmer band Mischpoke in Hamburg, Germany.

Enjoy this animated video of the London Klezmer Quartet playing the tune Dobriden (Dawn). 

“Shirley Feeney was no schlemiel,” by Kevin Fisher-Paulson in The San Francisco Chronicle. Fisher-Paulson remembers Feeney, who played Shirley in “Laverne

A Minnesota synagogue built an outdoor ice rink and inaugurated it in February 2023 with a klezmer skate.

In this clip from the 1939 film “Tevye,” Golda (played by Rebecca Weintraub) begs God for a good week, knowing that life

Medley from the Neukolln Klezmer Session in 2020: About 35 musicians (depending on how you count them), a trapeze dancer,

Enjoy Melokhe – Melukhe (Works – Wealth). Lyrics and music by folk poet Zelik Berdichever sung by Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer and

Learn how to make Southern-style pecan macaroons using a recipe from “Matzo Ball Gumbo and Other Dishes of the Jewish South,” by

The Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection at the Workers Circle is now online, incorporating their five out-of-print Yiddish songbooks.

Mu Asapru (Who Knows One?, the Yiddish version of Ekhad Mi Yodea?) with Theodore Bikel. Di Fir Kashes (The Four Questions) with The Lori Cahan-Simon

Reyzl Roza speaks Bessarabian Yiddish as she demonstrates how to make kasha varnishkes. English subtitles. A good way to improve both

On the Jewish Music List (to subscribe, email HERE) musicians Judith Cohen, Joel Rubin, and Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel recently talked about many versions of

Enjoy this beautiful recording of the Israel J Hochman Orchestra playing their “Russian Sher.” This recording, published in 1921 in

The great Moyshe Oysher sings a song for peysekh!

The presentation by KlezCalifornia’s Yiddish Culture Fund grantee Jake Schneider on How to Build a Yiddish Social Club is now available on

The first Yiddish New York Klezathon was livestreamed on December 30-31, 2021 The performances were recorded and are available on the links

Explore the intersection between classical music and klezmer in a 32-minute program with Joshua Horowitz, Veretski Pass, and SF Symphony musicians.

“Raise the Roof,” a film about the rebuilding of the magnificent painted ceiling of the destroyed wooden synagogue of Gwoździec, is now

Reflections from Monty Hall (born Monte Halparin to Orthodox Jewish parents).

How to Bake Bialys, in Yiddish with English subtitles.