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Live Music Society has announced a new round of grants to 26 small performance venues. Recipients of these Music in Action ...
Live Music Society announces the recipients of its third annual Music in Action grant, with $765,500 awarded to 26 small venues across the country. Live Music Society has announced the recipients of ...
Even in the Talmud, the connections are tenuous. These rituals only solidified centuries later, especially in medieval Ashkenaz (the region of northern France and Germany) — after the Crusades ...
1 Originally created in 1995 to celebrate Yiddish and Klezmer revival artists, the Ashkenaz Festival has evolved into a broad celebration of Jewish and cross-cultural art and performance featuring ...
This vintage house of worship doesn’t have a prayer. The site of a former century-old synagogue for Ukrainian immigrants in the East Village is set to be torn down to make room for six trendy ...
The Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz, converted into a church around 1970, is one of the last remaining tenement synagogue buildings in the neighborhood. One of the last remaining tenement ...
For this Saturday night show at Ashkenaz in Berkeley, Rogê will be joined by Reno-based soul and funk crew the Sextones. Contemporaries who spent nearly a decade working as the Mark Sexton Band ...
ASHKENAZ looks at whiteness in Israel and wonders: How did the “others” of Europe become the “Europe” of the others?
Belly Dance by the Bay 2024 is an exciting new Bay Area festival which will launch on Saturday, August 10, 2024 at Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center. Co-produced by Ashkenaz with belly dance ...
The first part of this book is dedicated to analyzing the pietist phenomenon known as Chassidei Ashkenaz (associated with Rabbi Shmuel HaChassid, Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid, and Rabbi Elazar Rokeach ...
Voice of Roma presents its 23rd Annual Herdeljezi Festival of Romani ("G*psy") Music and Dance on Friday, May 3 and Saturday May 4 at Berkeley's Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center.