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Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever

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In ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish folk music family makes it big from Greenwich Village to Lilith Fair

Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel is full of familial drama, rock music history and lots of Yiddishkeit. Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul ...
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Jewish and African-American folk music traditions to entwine at the Brooklyn Fiddle Summit

Violinist Zoe Aqua and the string band the Ebony Hillbillies will share a stage on Thursday at Gowanus club Littlefield. (New York Jewish Week) – Two folk music traditions that developed on opposite ...
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In ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish folk music family makes it big from Greenwich Village to Lilith Fair

(New York Jewish Week) — Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, “Mama Cass” Elliot. But what if there had been an entire Jewish family ...