The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...

Pro Musica Hebraica welcomes back the Apollo Ensemble for an evening of rare Jewish classical music from Amsterdam’s Ets-Chaim Library. Since their highly praised American debut in 2009, the musicians ...

FAIRFIELD — Relics of Jewish history came to life in the hands of Fairfield students this week as a collection of stringed instruments with ties to the Holocaust made their rounds through the area. A ...

One of the most celebrated violinists of the twentieth century, Mischa Elman (Mikhail Saulovich, 1891-1967) is remembered not only for the rich, lyrical warmth of his tone, but also for the profoundly ...

When I first heard Joe Buchanan’s country music, I assumed he was a Messianic Jew. “How good, how good,” he croons with a Texas drawl over a twangy guitar. “Yeah, God I love the house where you grow.” ...

The song is called “I Hate A Cappella,” and the joke is that it was composed and performed by an a cappella group, The Richter Scales. The group, comprised largely of Ivy League tech workers in San ...