This episode continues our exploration of the UK’s klezmer scene. Today, Dan talks to one of the longtime movers and shakers on the scene, violinist, festival organizer, teacher and more, Ilana Cravitz! Ilana is a violinist specializing in klezmer as well as baroque historical performance. She has performed and taught all over Europe and throughout the world. … Continue reading Ilana Cravitz
Today on Radiant Others we finish off our unofficial and unintended “A” trilogy with Dan’s chat with guitarist, singer/songwriter, Avi Fox-Rosen! Avi has been doing resonant work in Yiddish music for twenty years, most notably as a central player on Adrienne Cooper’s album Enchanted, and as part of the “guitarmony” of Yiddish Princess. His new album, … Continue reading Avi Fox-Rosen
Today’s episode should have been a halloween episode! This time, Dan sits down with Historian, Yiddishist, singer, and messenger of deep Jewish ritual practices, Annie Gottfried Cohen! Annie is based in the UK, teaches Yiddish through the Workers Circle, and has sung with Cantor Rachel Weston, the Isle of Klezbos, and on her own Yiddish … Continue reading Annie Gottfried Cohen
It’s a special Yontif edition of Radiant Others!! Hot off the release of her debut album Through the Walls, today’s episode features Dan’s conversation with UK violinist Anna Lowenstein! Anna Lowenstein is a leader klezmer fiddler and teacher in the UK and beyond. She is part of a younger cohort (than Dan at least) who … Continue reading Anna Lowenstein
For this month’s episode we turn to happenings in Dan’s home neighborhood of West Philly. Turns out, there’s a whole lot of Yiddish Culture being organized and created here, right now! Find out all about it from this live Radiant Others recording Dan held at Kol Tzedek Synagogue (where he leads the inimitable Simcha Band) … Continue reading New Philly Yiddish Culture Live!
It’s time to head back to the earliest days of the so-called klezmer revival with today’s guests, saxophonist Lev Liberman and clarinettist David Julian Gray of The Klezmorim. Founded in Berkeley California in 1975, this band started playing the repertoire that so many of us know and love and sharing it first in the Bay Area, then soon all … Continue reading Lev Liberman and David Julian Gray (The Klezmorim)
Dan here! We made it through another year and are ready to start the new one with a really amazing conversation. I am so excited to share my (first ever) conversation with professor Devin Naar. Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies and the chair of Sephardic Studies at the University of … Continue reading Devin Naar
Our penultimate podcast of 2025 delves into the rarified and mysterious mystical musical form, Khazones. Khazones is Yiddish term for the work of the synagogue cantor, or Khazn. It is music, prayer, speech, and more all at once. Today we talk with two incredible musicians, Judith Berkson and Jeremiah Lockwood. They have banded together to … Continue reading Khazones Underground with Judith Berkson and Jeremiah Lockwood
It’s time for Part 2 of our conversation with singer, songwriter, actor, translator, bandleader and more, Daniel Kahn! We continue right where we left off and dive right in with talking about the very first Painted Bird song Dan Blacksberg recorded, Parasites. Then Dan & Dan get into their whole big history together, which is nearly … Continue reading Daniel Kahn – Part 2
It’s all Dans on Radiant Others this month! This month is part 1 of our conversation with one of our Yiddish World’s most wide-reaching artists, singer, songwriter, actor, and more, Daniel Kahn. Dan Kahn’s music, especially through his longtime band The Painted Bird, has reached a lot of people inside and outside the Yiddish scene. … Continue reading Daniel Kahn – Part 1