Jon Kalish

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How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music

By Jon Kalish November 11, 2024 4:15 pm

How ‘uptown’ Jews fought to clean up the criminal underworld of the Lower East Side

By Jon Kalish September 5, 2024 4:33 pm

Yitz Twersky

Meet the New Yorker tracing the 300-year history of the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, from Chernobyl to the Bronx

By Jon Kalish August 13, 2024 12:00 pm

The Jewish mother who became a crime boss in Gilded Age New York

By Jon Kalish July 9, 2024 3:19 pm

Jerome Rothenberg, Bronx-born poet whose ‘ethnopoetics’ inspired scholars and rock stars, dies at 92

By Jon Kalish April 29, 2024 10:01 am

drinking Purim

Just in time for Purim, local businesses offer Jewish revelers pricey IV hangover ‘cures’

By Jon Kalish March 21, 2024 11:30 am

A tiny Orthodox synagogue, a relic of the old Jewish Lower East Side, struggles to survive

By Jon Kalish February 1, 2024 3:58 pm

Ruth Seymour

Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88

By Jon Kalish December 26, 2023 11:43 am

A new play tells the true story of a former Hasid who translated the New Testament into Yiddish

By Jon Kalish December 21, 2023 1:29 pm

The klezmer world will remember the ‘youngest of the old guys’

By Jon Kalish December 18, 2023 11:35 am

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