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Yiddish music

An ebullient Isa Kremer performs, date unknown. (Bain News Service)
Posted inFrom the Archives

This chanteuse brought Yiddish music to life a century ago

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 30, 2026January 30, 2026

“A little girl stands on a table. Oil lamps light the room. There is silence in the warm night. Around her, dimly, she sees bearded faces, the round, proud smiles […]

Nathan Salsburg in a barn on his property, which also functions as his office. (Photo/Joan Shelley)
Posted inEditorial

Folk guitarist Nathan Salsburg makes experimental soundscapes from old Jewish phonograph records

Daniel Bromfield by Daniel Bromfield and JTA March 4, 2021March 4, 2021
Alby Kass died March 31 of Covid-19. (COURTESY JONATHON KASS)
Posted inObituaries

Singer and North Bay Jewish leader Alby Kass, 89, dies of Covid-19

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 14, 2020April 14, 2020
two black patches with gold wording — one patch in english, one patch in yiddish
Posted inLocal Voice

We will outlive them. But how?

Donald C. Cutler by Donald C. Cutler May 1, 2019May 15, 2019
Russian-American singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko on stage with the band (Photo/Roman Boldyrev, r-lerman.ca)
Posted inMusic

S.F.-produced ‘Yiddish Glory’ goes to the Grammys

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 16, 2019January 17, 2019
Russian-American singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko on stage with the band (Photo/Roman Boldyrev, r-lerman.ca)
Posted inCulture

Silenced for years, songs of Soviet Jews heard again in all their ‘Yiddish Glory’

by Andrew Muchin February 20, 2018August 20, 2018

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