A new choral composition based on traditional Yiddish lullabies recently had its world premiere in Vancouver, Canada. Its Swedish Jewish composer, Jacob Mühlrad, is a rising star in the international ...

With her latest project, “The Ballad of Mauthausen,” Dutch Yiddish singer Niki Jacobs has pulled off the seemingly impossible: She has recast the song cycle of the same name by Greek composer Mikis ...

Somewhere in the world a restless child is waiting for sleep to come. A doting mother leans over her offspring, murmuring a song to speed the little one to slumber. The odds are pretty good that the ...

GREAT BARRINGTON -- The first verse of Yiddish lullaby "Makh Tsu Di Eygelekh" ("Close Your Eyes") is mournfully beautiful: "Now close your little eyes/Soon little birds will fly/In circles ...

After singing a Yiddish lullaby familiar to generations of Jewish children, Sheila Witt looked out onto the Main and reminded her students that there is no better place in Montreal to learn the ...

Like the klor-vays tsigele, the restless white goat from the Yiddish lullaby, the Jews of New York have gone a-wandering from their old neighborhoods. In the Norwood section of the Bronx, the ...