In English and Russian · На английском и русском
Trace each song through origin, authorship, translation, recording and listener memory, then hear how it lives now.
Walter J. Kin's manifesto and song series: Hear Hanukkah, Hear Shavuot, Hear We All Brothers.
Featured stories
Follow a Hasidic melody into Hebrew words, Russian adaptation and worldwide celebration.
Yiddish memoryA riddle song survives because each generation gives its questions a new voice.
Witness and remembranceFive songs restore creators, places and lives to music history could not silence.
New modern Jewish songRussian Jewish immigrant life and Brighton Beach humor carried into a new English recording.
Why it matters
Each entry credits the people who wrote, adapted, performed and remembered a song, so Jewish culture is not only preserved but heard as human experience.
My search in this life: to know myself and my people better, and to tell others about it, through songs.
Walter J. Kin · Founder of JewishSong.org
The next chapter
Each finished English recording receives original cover art and a permanent, source-backed story page, then becomes part of a living bilingual encyclopedia.
See the release format
JewishSong.org