Michael Guttman, a violin virtuoso and the curator of the POLIN Music Festival talks about Jewish music, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Eastern European roots of the tango.

In his opinion, the Jewish music he had heard growing up in Northern California’s Bay Area ranged from “really bad to horrible.” In 2009, he was touring as a rock musician, playing hundreds ...

The bleak music unfolds into devastation, desperation, all wrapped in nostalgia – so similar to many Polish tangos produced at the time. Then, Adam Aston’s voice warbles out of the gloom, singing in ...

A digitised archive of pre-WW2 documents, books and cultural artefacts showing how members of the Jewish community expressed themselves through art, literature and music, has gone online.