Tina Frühauf, the author of Experiencing Jewish Music in America, states: “Whether one defines it as music made by Jews, for Jews, or in a Jewish style (whatever that may be) or music with Jewish ...

In the 1950s, Younes Dardashti, a Jewish man from Tehran’s Jewish ghetto, became one of Iran’s most celebrated singers. As the country underwent rapid secularization under the Shah, Jewish communities ...

JTA — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The ...

Jerusalemite of the Week: The Jewish people have an incredibly diverse tradition of music throughout the Diaspora. Immigrants brought them to Israel, and Sharona Deri preserves them. Music is ...

Five super-talented musicians from Leverkusen, Germany, play traditional Jewish music at nursing homes and in front of Holocaust survivors in Israel and in Germany, and they are called Crazy Freilach ...

The borrowings of the Jews of the Maghreb from the Andalusian music and the qasîdah? The musical styles of the Muslim, and Jewish communities appear to be very colorful and mutually influential, ...

Duo Andalus brings Sephardic and North African Jewish music to St. Louis Nov. 5-6 for a concert, learning session and Shabbat ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

A new online concert series will launch on June 1 highlighting celebrated Jewish musicians from around the world. The "Secret Chord Concerts" is being co-developed by the Weitzman National Museum of ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Saul Kaye never wanted to be a “Jewish blues” player. In his opinion, the Jewish music he had heard growing up in Northern California’s Bay Area ranged from “really bad to horrible.” ...

YOUNGSTOWN -- The sounds of clarinets, violins, lively dance rhythms and traditional Jewish melodies filled the Jewish Community Center on Monday evening as guests gathered for the final presentation ...