Украинский фольклор

«Ночь перед Рождеством» – пожалуй, самая сказочная и самая чарующая повесть Н.В. Гоголя из его сборника «Вечера на хутор...

Сказки погружают нас в удивительные миры, где встречаются добрые и злые волшебники, храбрые герои и таинственные существ...

Meet KGB archives, exclusive interviews and rare recordings in the second and final part of Mitia Khramtsov's and Ilya S...

Идишская, греческая и русская песни на одну мелодию, с последующим разоблачением.Музыкант и этномузыколог Илья Сайтанов ...

Как украинский танец связан с желанием удержать Финляндию в составе России? Музыкант и этномузыколог Илья Сайтанов продо...

Музыкант и этномузыколог Илья Сайтанов разбирается в бесконечных превращениях мелодии украинского танца "Карапет", котор...

Музыковед Михаэль Лукин и музыкант Илья Сайтанов "медленно читают" мистические напевы без слов из пограничной Галиции, о...

Premiere of Alex Nadzharov's "Hommage to Mahler" (strings, piano, live electronics) and the composer's talk with musical...

Ilya Saitanov of Lakocha shares his journey following the most "vagrant" Mediterranean melody – from Istanbul to New Yor...

Playlist of songs from XX century Yiddish and Hebrew theater shows, from New York to Moscow, annotated by Ilya Saitanov.

How a synagogue cantor (chazzan) can avoid turning prayer into operetta? In the latest episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast...

Why do Hasidic Jews believe that you can hear Polish and Ukrainian peasants inadvertently speaking Hebrew and Yiddish? I...

In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musical critic Alexey Munipov introduces "Bukovina songs" by contemporary c...

Why do Hasidic Jews (whose native language was Yiddish, and sacred language of prayer and learning – Hebrew) chose to si...

In the latest episode of Radio Eshkolot podacst the Berlin-based contemporary composer Boris Filanovsky conducts a "crea...

In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musician Ilya Saitanov ("Lakocha") tries to unravel a bundle of questions a...

Recently New York-based musician Zisl Slepovitch delivered a series of talks on Jewish music of Belarus (bit.ly/2HQA3ms)...

This playlist curated by the New York-based musician and musicologist Zisl Slepovitch and Ilya Saitanov (Lakocha) is a p...

As a sequel to their podcast on Jewish music in the Soviet restaurant musicians Mitia Kharmtsov (Dobranoch) and Ilya Sai...

Recently opened KGB archives in Ukraine give us a rare glimpse into the Jewish music of the Soviet restaurants – a scene...

Why do Mountain Jews of the Caucasus pronounce Hebrew a lot like Yemenites? How does music demonstrate that Mountain Jew...

Why did the keeper of Berditchev synagogue polish the magnificent chandelier on Sabbath eve and hang himself on it? In t...

How does Kazachok transform Hungarian string instruments into percussion? Where does it arrive in the course of its Odys...

Is Kazachok a melody or a dance? Is Ukranian gopak the same as Ukranian kozachok? And what about Jewish hopke and kozats...

How did the blind Rabbi from Aleppo turn a popular Egyptian song into a Messianic hymn? How did the melody of a blind Ir...

"Sleep, sleep, my girl, sleep, sleep, my dear. Daddy will bring you a birdie, so that your eye won't hurt". Why is fathe...

One night in November 2019 groups of flâneurs went walking in Berlin. Their impressions were captured in flows of images...

"You should drink a little vodka, but like a Mensch, not like a Golem" – this line from a Yiddish song incorporates the ...

"Slow reading is the opposite of close reading and yes I do think that Jewish reading practices can teach us a lot about...

Did you know that "Oyfn pripetchek brent a fayerel" (“On the hearth, a fire burns”) is actually a metaphor for female de...

Why Jewish "folk songs" were "invented" in the 19th century? Does it mean the Jews did not sing outside the synagogue be...

Ancient Hebrew devotional songs – tehillim (ψαλμοί, Psalms)– have reached us only as written texts. However, for thousan...

Ten most viewed musical videos on Eshkolot Youtube channel have one apparent common feature – they provoke violent battl...

"Niggun, a Hasidic song without words, is like a very powerful virus. Because the moment you hear it – you have to catch...

A hundred years ago Weimar Berlin became a global migration hub, a multilingual marketplace, exploding with artistic, te...

Fortuna Records is a Tel Aviv label famous for its discovery and re-issue of rare and forgotten recordings of Middle Eas...

Haim Louk was born in Casablanca (the same year as the movie) and for many decades he has performed songs embodying the ...

Yiddish skomorokh-trickster, vagrant philologist, Grammy nominee Psoy Korolenko is a unique example of living Jewish cou...

Igor Krutogolov's Toy Orchestra is an Israeli band which uses children toys instead of "real" instruments. Its music and...

Alcoholism is the distinction and privilege of being human (Leon Trotsky)