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Accordion, ukulele and klezmer music gathering a Bay Area following
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 2 days ago
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Oakland home. "An accordion really tugs at the heartstrings." Although she easily fell in love with the accordion, her affinity for the much-maligned instrument was a tough sell to her old punk-rock buddies. She lost friends, she jokes, when she started...
Tags: Berkeley Ukulele Club, KlezCalifornia Yiddish Culture Festival, Darryl Berk, West Coast Accordion Babes, Jake Shimabukuro, Mason St., Tara Linda, San Francisco, klezmer band, Red Hot Chachkas, Honolulu, Ukulele, Accordion, Duckmandu, Brave Old World, Jewish music, Klezmer, Yiddish, Entertainment Culture
Eastern Watershed Quartet release The Klez Dispensers
Berlin :: NJ :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Once you get past the brutal PhotoShop of band members' heads on candy dispensers (a pun New Jersey's Klez Dispensers mined 10 years ago), the music of Eastern Watershed brings nothing but joy. Rather than just the classic Jewish-music genre, Eastern...
Tags: Klez Dispensers, eastern watershed, Lynette Garlan, Berlin, Dave Tarras, Garlan, Entertainment Culture, Jewish music, Klezmer, Yiddish
Scottsboro Boys musical set for off-Broadway
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago
Credibility A new musical from Cabaret and Chicago collaborators John Kander and Fred Ebb will have its world premiere off-Broadway in the new year, more than five years after the death of lyricist Ebb. Canada's first space clown can brag that his recent trip into...
Tags: Scottsboro Boys, Afghanistan, Kabul, Mark Breslin, Fiddler on the Roof, Chaim Topol, Fred Ebb, Tevye, Yiddish, Year of birth missing, Yuk Yuk's, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, John Kander, Cabaret, Chicago, Broadway musicals, Kander and Ebb
Books of The Times: Desperately Seeking Dad: A Murder Mystery
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 days ago
Credibility Zachary Lazar’s father died in 1975 of distinctly unnatural causes in a stairwell at a Phoenix parking garage. His name was Ed Lazar, and he was an accountant with ties to the once-booming land-fraud community in Arizona.
Tags: Ed Lazar, Mr. Lazar, Arizona Republic, real estate, Zachary Lazar, Japan, Tōkyō, Fiddler on the Roof, Jewish theatre, Yiddish
Killing draws life sentence
Las Vegas :: NM :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Authorities say Dominguez, in concert with Friedman's business partner, Lilani Tomines, and with the help of two other men including his brother, bludgeoned and stabbed Friedman multiple times inside his home near Bermuda Road and Windmill Lane on Jan....
Tags: Ivan Dominguez, Lilani Tomines, Friedman, Demien Dominguez, Las Vegas, Yiddish, Law Crime
Unsung Historians
Pinsk :: Belarus | about 1 year ago
Credibility Nadav’s book—a scholarly companion to Pinsk’s massive 1966 Yizkor book—opens a wide window onto a remarkable place, a centuries-old citadel of rabbinical learning, Hasidic piety, Hebrew and Yiddish literature, theater, journalism, grand cantorial music,...
Tags: yiddish
Lingua Yiddishe: Yiddish Language and Literature Conference in Tel Aviv
Prominent Yiddish scholars from around the world gathered this week for a conference on Yiddish language and literature, raising questions about the future of Yiddish in the Hebrew city.
A Brazilian Boy, Alone in the Tumult of 1970
São Paulo :: Brazil | about 1 year ago
Credibility Published: February 15, 2008 “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation†takes place in Brazil in 1970, when the country was ruled by a military dictatorship and its national soccer team, led by Pelé, was making its way toward the finals of the World
Tags: yiddish
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