Beregovsky and his colleague Ruvim Lerner (1912-1972), planned to publish an anthology of the collected songs, a continuation of Beregovsky’s earlier groundbreaking work preserving Jewish folk ...

Born May 31, 1938, to Jewish Ukrainian parents in New York ... later switching to guitar as he came to embrace the work of such folk-music icons as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.

Their Repertoire of Eastern European Jewish folk songs span the distance of Turkey to Poland to their own original music written here in Toronto. The band is, Yosl Landau (Accordion and Vox ...

I came up being into punk rock and folk music, and [Hebrew school] was very preppy and sports-oriented, so I always felt that kind of estrangement from the Jewish community as I knew it.” ...

This year’s event – which includes several workshops, a dance party and a concert – features international klezmer stars Michael Alpert and Craig Judelman.