ReynHartsik (heartfelt, sincerely), a duo project from musicians Yoshie Fruchter and Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz, explores Yiddish poetry, loshen koydesh, prayer, and nigun in an intimate acoustic folk setting. Using a combination of their voices with cello, guitar, bass, and mandolin, Fruchter and Sacks-Mintz bring new melodies to the Jewish music canon using intricate songs, […]

In 1956, the album TANZ! was released on Period Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records that distributed folk and international music. The album was the vision of jazz and klezmer virtuoso clarinetist Sam Musiker, featuring himself and his father-in-law, the great klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras. Musically, the album was a triumph. But commercially it saw […]

Violinists Jake Shulman-Ment and Abigale Reisman joined forces to record Two Strings, a brand-new powerhouse string-band album that unites their stunning virtuosity, deep roots in traditional Yiddish and Eastern European musical idioms, and a fearless sense of exploratory improvisation. The resulting sound is riveting and authentically individual, equally at home under a Jewish wedding canopy, […]

Joanne Borts is a veteran Broadway performer with deep Yiddish roots whose career has been the love child of theatricality, folk music, comedy, barbershop quartets, and social action. Her debut solo album, Lush & Hora, embraces a spectrum of contradictions told through a Yiddish lens of irreverent admiration, mischievous rebellion and maybe a little gossip. […]

The Great Yiddish-American Songbook celebrates the joys of Yinglish, with English songs in Yiddish and Yiddish songs in English. Five of the best Yiddish singers sing the greatest hits (and the not-so-great hits) of the 20th century, from Ziggy Elman’s hit adaptation of the klezmer tune And the Angels Sing to Mickey Katz’s deranged macaronic […]