Nigunim, or songs without words, were a crucial outward expression of the religious experience of the 18th-century Hasidic revivalist movement. The early Hasidim created a new and distinctly Jewish ...

A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate “Kapelya,” the first recording of Hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women. (JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad Hasidic community of Crown ...

For the latest installment of the Nigun Project, I am indebted to a Forward reader who posted a link in the comments section of a recent piece in the nigun series. The link led me to a website that ...

Started by two friends who met in Yiddish class, Yale’s Nigun Circle just celebrated its first year. Nigun means “melody” in Hebrew and consists of wordless melodies that are traditionally sung by ...

Neo-Hasidic band Zusha wants all kinds of listeners, not just Jews. For these three twentysomething New Yorkers, making music — a mix of reggae, jazz, folk, ska and soul music — is about spreading joy ...

Mark Feldman, Uri Caine, Greg Cohen and Joey Baron have all played integral parts in John Zorn's many explorations of Jewish improvised music. All four have won acclaim for the distinctness and ...

Many of us, including myself, are deeply affected by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, probably the greatest composer who ever lived, and by the compositions of other musical geniuses such as ...