The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...

Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience depicts one of the most delightful yet often overlooked chapters of ...

As part of Jewish American Heritage Month, Congregation Ahavas Achim is hosting "American Jewish Music: The Story Behind the ...

Every song has a story, and given the prevalence of Jewish musicians, it’s often a Jewish story. True for ” Hatikvah ” and ” By Mir Bistdu Shoen,” but also for “White Christmas”—or even “Ave Maria.” ...

A new edition of Richard Havers’ lavishly illustrated history of Blue Note records is an occasion for recalling how that unsurpassed small jazz label was the brainchild of German Jewish refugees in ...

A collection of documents described as a treasure trove of Jewish music has been acquired by the New York Public Library, after being hidden in a cantor’s basement in Yonkers for 40 years. Sheet music ...

The song is called “I Hate A Cappella,” and the joke is that it was composed and performed by an a cappella group, The Richter Scales. The group, comprised largely of Ivy League tech workers in San ...

In the hit show “The Sopranos,” veteran actor Jerry Adler plays mob-adjacent Jewish businessman Hesh Rabkin, who made a fortune in the music business decades earlier. In a first season episode, Hesh ...