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Isthmus, 21 April 2016 by Bob Jacobson Upcoming events highlight unearthed treasures of Yiddish music Madison is not known as a hotbed of Yiddish language...

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The 60th Anniversary meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology was held in Austin, Texas, from December 3-6, 2016.  I was part of a three-paper panel...

On 16th and 17th April an exceptional performance will launch the ‘Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Jewish Music and Theatre’ festival. A recently recovered play...

Tell us about your role in PtJA I am Festival Coordinator for the Leeds and York Out of the Shadows Festival. The festival is taking...

Dr David Fligg (PtJA Project Consultant) discusses how his research is being realised through a new theatrical and musical performance In a photo album hidden...

On the eve of Purim, at the UCL's Hebrew & Jewish Studies Department students and  staff performed a rehearsed reading of a Yiddish Purim story written during...

Wednesday 4th May, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm, JW3, London To commemorate Yom Hashoah, JW3 and Jewish Music Institute JMI are hosting an event together at...

Digital Yiddish Theatre Project published PtJA postdoctoral researcher Simo Muir's blog about Yiddish theatre and cabaret in Helsinki. In 2005, a room full of forgotten...

David Vaughan interviewed PtJA members Stephen Muir, David Fligg and Lisa Peschel when they visited Prague in February 2016. Thousands of Jewish writers and musicians found...