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Jewish music

An Orthodox Rapper and the Many Permutations of “Havah Nagilah”

A new single.

Nissim Black
Dec. 10 2020 12:01AM

Cole Porter’s “Jewish Tunes”

A consummate WASP among Broadway’s Jews.

Terry Teachout
Nov. 20 2020 12:01AM

The Black Cantors of Harlem

The music of Thomas LaRue.

Renee Ghert-Zand
Nov. 5 2020 12:01AM

The Israeli Band Bringing Ancient Hebrew Poetry to the World

How Yamma made Psalm 104 a runaway hit.

Talya Solan and Yonnie Dror
Oct. 6 2020 12:01AM

The Eleven-Year-Old-Boy Who Wrote the Most Famous Song of the Vilna Ghetto

Shtiler, shtiler.

Aviad Te’eni
Sept. 25 2020 12:01AM

High Holiday Prayers Set to Music—Persian Style

Accompanied by a master player of the santur.

Ruben Malekan
Sept. 23 2020 12:01AM

Pop Culture Embraces Tradition, While Tradition Embraces Pop Culture—but Only One Succeeds

American Pickle and Young Rechnitz

Liel Leibovitz
Sept. 15 2020 12:01AM

The Lost World of African American Cantors

“He sings with a real Jewish turn, with a real Jewish moan and sigh.”

Henry Sapoznik
July 20 2020 12:01AM

An Intimate Look at the First Scholar of Jewish Music

The author of a biblically themed opera, and perhaps of Havah Nagilah.

Shoshanah Idelsohn
July 6 2020 12:01AM

How One Man Dedicated His Life to Preserving the Music of the Holocaust

The bard of Sachsenhausen.

Makana Eyre
May 7 2020 12:01AM

What an Album of Hasidic Rap Has in Common with the Work of a 10th-Century Poet and Grammarian

Nissim Black’s Mothaland and Dunash ibn Labrat.

Henry Abramson
March 11 2020 12:01AM

Have Yourself a Merry Little Hanukkah?

Hanukkah+.

Rivki Silver
Dec. 27 2019 12:01AM

How a Jewish Boxer and a Catholic Priest Celebrated Christmas at the Battle of Guadalcanal

“Silent night” and “My Yiddishe Mama.”

Ron Grossman
Dec. 26 2019 12:01AM

Israel’s Religious-Music Revolution Can Bring It Closer to the Diaspora

The annual piyyut festival.

Yossi Klein Halevi
Oct. 10 2019 12:01AM
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