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Listen to a modern take on an anti-war classic: the band Litvakus performs Niet, pan Lavrov, a Yiddish song lamenting the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

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

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

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

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

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 New York. It should be

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

Accordionist Geoff Berner plays and sings a Yiddish version of Petula Clark’s 1964 hit Downtown. Translated into Yiddish with wit and humor by Michael Wex, including rhyming Bossa Nova with Tchenstikhova (Yiddish) (Częstochowa in

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 2021.