In mid-January, Esther Shapera was surprised and delighted to discover that a concert of Eastern European klezmer music, thought lost for nearly a century, would be performed at Beth El
Yaakov (Koby) Oranski, an Israeli software engineer consultant who has lived in the United States for two decades, the last year in Arizona, first pitched the idea of a poetry
(JTA) — Early in the new drama “Origin,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black author Isabel Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) calls her cousin from Berlin to share that, as part of
Whether you are a classical music connoisseur or your only exposure to the genre is recognizing the opening bars of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Jeffrey Siegel’s “Keyboard Conversations” has something
Laura Arnold Leibman, a historian at Reed College in Oregon, often uses objects — a cup, a photograph, even a gravestone — as an entry point to understanding the lives