Louisa Lyne & di Yiddishe Kapelye: Lust

Louisa Lyne & di Yiddishe Kapelye: Lust

June 9, 2020

Destined to Dare Listening Post 256. Louisa Lyne’s art is inserting Yiddish songs into unexpected contexts. On her third album she and her band put the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews into creative dialogue with Spanish, English, Hebrew and her native Swedish;...
Andrea Pancur: Alpen Klezmer – Zum Meer

Andrea Pancur: Alpen Klezmer – Zum Meer

October 2, 2017

From Yin-Yang to Oy-Oompah Listening Post 118. Scholars debate whether Yiddish, the German-based language of Ashkenazi Jews, emerged in the Rhineland or Bavaria. Few have studied Bavarian-Yiddish links more than Andrea Pancur, who focuses less on debating linguistic...