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What you need to know: Born in 1945 in Mitala Maria to a staunch Catholic family, Namale’s early life was a cinematic tale of hardship and resilience. The 12th of 13 children born to Benjamin Mutumba, ...

Few voices in contemporary opera carry the weight of history quite like Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate. A citizen of the ...

A cradle of American music, whose famed legacy exists, sometimes uneasily but often serendipitously, alongside a ...

We Were Made for These Times” is as inventive and joyous an album as I’ve heard in a long time. And the most proudly Jewish.

Lost anti-fascist Yiddish language songs from World War II will be making their Asian debut this month. Yiddish Glory will be performing in Shanghai – a city where some 18,000 Jewish refugees found ...

At the age of three, Maia Brown heard her first full Yiddish sentence. As a middle schooler, she found a Yiddish film shelf tucked away in an upstairs corner of Seattle’s iconic Scarecrow Video. She ...

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. “A little girl stands on a table. Oil lamps light the room. There is silence in ...

The Phoenix Yiddish Culture Festival returns on Dec. 4 for a second year. For four days, the festival will bring people together to celebrate Eastern European Jewish music, dance, art and food. The ...

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin. Photo by Stefan Loeber. On Oct. 24-29, the CU Boulder College of Music will host a unique klezmer and Yiddish song residency featuring singer Anthony ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magnificent. The concert version of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's celebrated production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in ...

Dmitri Gaskin, the new director of KlezCalifornia, is a 29-year-old accordionist. (Shendl Copitman) Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. The good news ...