Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prisoners are forced to play music as their fello inmates walk to their execution in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria - ...

Inspired in part by all the Jewish artists on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, the Forward decided it was time to rank the best Jewish pop songs of all time. You can find the whole list ...

Jacob Michael, noted American Jewish philanthropist, presented his collection of Jewish music — one of the largest in the world — to the Jewish National and University Library at the Hebrew University ...

Much as we expected when we published “The 150 greatest Jewish pop songs of all time” on January 31, 2022, readers responded with their likes, dislikes, and suggestions for songs that did not make the ...

Jewish people around the world will light the first candle of Hanukkah on Sunday night. So for today’s Black Music Sunday, let’s explore and share the music and inspiration of Joshua Nelson, a Jewish ...

There is an unsolved mystery at the heart of one of the most popular Jewish songs in history. Every Friday evening, Jews around the world recite the poetic prayer “Lecha Dodi” to welcome the Sabbath.

As vocalist Anthony Russell learned a Yiddish piece about a woeful traveler far away from their family, he noticed it felt like another, very culturally different song — the African American spiritual ...

If you see the name Yair Rosenberg online or in hard copy, the odds are that it’s as a byline. Mr. Rosenberg is a prodigiously talented journalist; after starting to interview big-name subjects when ...

The famous poem that sits at the base of the Statue of Liberty, “The New Colossus”, was written specifically for that massive sculpture and referred to Lady Liberty as the “mother of exiles”. The poem ...

“Understanding popular music -- how it was manufactured and consumed -- is one of the key elements to understanding Israeli culture,” according to Lewis Glinert, a professor of Asian and Middle ...

To mark the 11th anniversary of the American singer-songwriter’s death, the Israeli musician will perform her versions of Friedman’s music at Park Avenue Synagogue. (New York Jewish Week) — After she ...

What happened to Yiddish theater, how it came to be, why it faded and how it made a comeback are among the questions explored in “Immigrant Songs: Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience,” ...