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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 Yiddish Press. The event February

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

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 and Shirley,” and bemoans the

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 will never be the same

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