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 ...

Pro Musica Hebraica welcomes back the Apollo Ensemble for an evening of rare Jewish classical music from Amsterdam’s Ets-Chaim Library. Since their highly praised American debut in 2009, the musicians ...

FAIRFIELD — Relics of Jewish history came to life in the hands of Fairfield students this week as a collection of stringed instruments with ties to the Holocaust made their rounds through the area. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, the daughter of Chaskel Tydor, presents a shofar, a traditional Jewish instrument obtained by her ...

One of the most celebrated violinists of the twentieth century, Mischa Elman (Mikhail Saulovich, 1891-1967) is remembered not only for the rich, lyrical warmth of his tone, but also for the profoundly ...

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 ...