Not Your Bubbe's Punk Rock: An Interview with the Shondes
by Amanda Walgrove
The Shondes is a Brooklyn-based indie band that has garnered attention for their gritty Riot Grrrl rock sound, Jewish influences and political messages....
Not Your Bubbe’s Punk Rock: An Interview with the Shondes
by Amanda Walgrove
The Shondes is a Brooklyn-based indie band that has garnered attention for their gritty Riot Grrrl rock sound, Jewish influences and political messages....
Sects, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
By Symi Rom-Rymer
A group of young Hasidic men hang out at the foot of the subway stairs at a station in Brooklyn, New...
Renewing Galicia
by Gabriel Weinstein
My grandfather always chuckled when we spoke about the Galicia region of northwestern Ukraine and southeastern Poland. He’d cackle, “Galicia! We used to...
The Death of Yiddish?
By Merav Levkowitz
For 25 years, the American klezmer band The Klezmatics has been unable to sustain itself solely from their Yiddish klezmer music. The reason...
Kiev Celebrates Sholom Aleichem, then Destroys his House
By Jeremy Gillick
Following celebrations in Kiev in honor of the 150th anniversary of Sholom Aleichem's birth, developers destroyed his house.
The great Yiddish writer would...
Laughter Through Tears
By Jeremy Gillick
Sholom Aleichem, the revered 19th century writer whose earnest, incredulous and good-natured humor came to define a century of Jewish jokes, is back....
An Interview with Peter Manseau, Author of Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
By Jeremy Gillick
“Rise and go to the town of the killings,” Bialik wrote of Kishinev, the Moldovan city, formerly Russian, where a 1903 Easter Sunday...