How the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra turns Jewish music stereotypes upside down

From Baroque Italy to ancient Hebrew poetry, Philharmonia Baroque's "Jewish Nightlife" overturns easy ideas about what Jewish music is - and has been.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Spotify’s Jewish music makes me feel like a kid again

This article originally appeared on Kveller. When searching for songs for a playlist I was putting together for my kids on Spotify, I came across a tune — “Pana HaGeshem,” (“The Rain has Gone Away”) ...
Jazz

"Exiled" Jewish Cabaret Songs Find a Home on CD

The New Budapest Orpheum Society brings forth more treasures from the archives of 20th-century Jewish popular music on a new CD, Jewish Cabaret in Exile (Cedille Records CDR 90000 110), its second ...
Jewish Journal

Jewish fusion music key to Budapest’s ‘Jewstock’ festival

Flora Polnauer, 28, tilts back her head, half closes her eyes and hums a few bars of a song by her hip-hop/funk/reggae band HaGesher. The song is "Lecha Dodi," the Shabbat evening prayer—sounded over ...
The Forward

The secret Jewish history of Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest songs of all time

This past week Rolling Stone magazine published an updated list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” It was the first time the list has been updated since 2004, and out of curiosity, we combed the ...
NPR

'You're Not My First Enemy': In Long-Lost Jewish Songs Of WWII, Pain And Defiance

In August 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, a 10-year-old Jewish orphan named Valya Roytlender sang a song called "My Mother's Grave" to a Soviet ethnomusicologist in Bratslav, Ukraine.