Jewish music

Klezmer is Jewish folk music that has evolved over centuries. It is one of the most unique musical styles packed with emotion.

When I was a little kid, my favorite part of going to synagogue was the singing. Even if I didn’t know what the words meant, I craved singing Hebrew prayers and Jewish songs at the top of lungs at religious school. Every week it was a joyous release with a community I loved.Now, in the […]

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23. Adon Olam Song - Art, Music & Poetry

Cantillation, Chanting the Bible. Synagogue and Relihious Music. Jewish Music.

Yiddish Film. Jewish Film in America and Europe. Jewish Movies. Jewish Cinema.

Jewish songs, folk and modern : a collection of 25 compositions representing every worth-while phase of Jewish musical endeavor : folk songs, folklore and children's songs, original and translated classics / [compiled by Joseph P. Katz] http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.l0071473813;view=1up;seq=9

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the three sisters who make up the genre-defying band A-WA after they performed at NPR's Tiny Desk.

Members of the Klezmaniacs, ages 10 to 16, find new meaning in a genre associated with the "Old World."

Bottle Dancers - The Bottle Dance from Fiddler On The Roof

Faux-Hebrew fonts have been around for more than a century, but were the origins of this lettering Jewish or antisemitic?

Rokhl’s Golden City: What makes a song Jewish?

An orthodox Jew takes part in the traditional Jewish Kaparot chicken-waving ceremony in Jerusalem as part of the Yom Kippur celebrations

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I'm not a deeply religious person (I know, George Michael, I gotta have faith, faith, faith). I was, however, raised in mixed-faith household. I grew up with one Catholic and one Jewish parent, which I lovingly refer to as being a "Cashew." To be…

Happy Breslov Man in the Machne Yehuda Market.