Abe Elenkrieg or Elenkrig (1878 – 1965) was a trumpeter, barber and bandleader of “Abe Elenkrig’s Yiddishe Orchestra” and the

In her solo pieces, cellist Francesca Ter-Berg experiments with improvisation, looping, and many different effects, basing some of her pieces on Yiddish

We wish you a happy, meaningful, and delicious Passover. To help things along, here are some Passover songs in Yiddish:

Watch Riki Rose make stuffed cabbage, Hasidic-style, here.

Eighty years after the khurbn (Holocaust), a Jewish circus returns to Germany. Tsirk Dobranotch, a musical circus ensemble, is presenting “Tshemodan” (suitcase, in Yiddish), a new

Baymele (“little tree” in Yiddish) is a klezmer band rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their debut album, Sapling, embodies

A green duck goes in search of noodles to chew on. A soldier leaving for the Russo-Japanese war bids a

The Bay Area music community experienced a huge loss in May 2025 with the passing of Rob Reich. Rob will

Enjoy this rendition of Broyt un Royzn (Bread and Roses) by Seattle-based ensemble Brivele. View the video »

Watch the Bay Area’s own Kehillah Klezmer Band perform a wonderful rendition of Olam Chesed Yibaneh. Watch video »

For peysekh: Dayenu in Yiddish, by Dinah & Zisl Slepovich! Watch video »

Bay Area klezmer band Veretski Pass recently released a new album with clarinetist Joel Rubin, The Peacock and The Sunflower. The

Read this interesting article about singer Paul Robeson, who sang (or sometimes didn’t sing!) in Yiddish. If you scroll down, there

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

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