July 21, 2026
Musical Archaeology Listening Post 396. Holocaust narratives in literature, film and music originate largely from Central and Western Europe. During World War II the Nazis also penetrated 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) into the Soviet Union, in the process murdering...
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;...
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...
