Jewish Culture

The magic and zest of Ladino---the Judeo-Spanish Dialect--enliven the novels of Rosa Nissan.

The music of the synagogue celebrates both the diversity and unity of the Jewish people.

An overview of synagogue and religious music, including cantillation, nusah, the nigun, cantors and cantorial music, and the influence of prayer in the synagogue.

A Renaissance composer who applied the conventions of choral music to Jewish liturgy

With klezmer's popularity on the rise, artists have taken it in new--and sometimes "controversial"--directions.

In many ways, the history of Israeli music reflects the broad struggles of this young country.

Is the language of Sephardic Jews, undergoing a revival?

In Israel, even the musical is political.

Music in modern-day Israel has a rich history reaching back to the years before the founding of the State.

A unique sound emanating from a unique place

Jewish mystics took Judaism's reverence for the Hebrew language one step further, venerating the Hebrew letters themselves and considering them paths to the Divine.

Once considered the language of an older generation, Yiddish is now being embraced by hip twenty- and thirty-somethings.