Step into The Jewish Song Show, a documentary-style podcast where each episode takes a Jewish journey with an iconic song. In Season 1, host Steve Singer and the entertaining and illuminating ghost of composer Sholom Secunda follow “Bei Mir Bist Du Sheyn” from Yiddish theater to swing-era hit to a song the Nazis really didn’t want on the air. Along the way, you’ll hear archival recordings, stories of migration and memory, and the surprising ways Jewish music travels, changes, and still speaks...
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Step into The Jewish Song Show, a documentary-style podcast where each episode takes a Jewish journey with an iconic song. In Season 1, host Steve Singer and the entertaining and illuminating ghost of composer Sholom Secunda follow “Bei Mir Bist Du Sheyn” from Yiddish theater to swing-era hit to a song the Nazis really didn’t want on the air. Along the way, you’ll hear archival recordings, stories of migration and memory, and the surprising ways Jewish music travels, changes, and still speaks...
A little boy in the Pale of Settlement thinks his name is lemeshke—“good-for-nothing”—until a song at the Shabbos table proves otherwise. From there, his voice will carry him through pogroms, across an ocean, and onto the stages and synagogues of New York, on the way to becoming composer Sholom Secunda. In this debut episode, we meet Secunda long before fame and “Bei Mir Bist Du Sheyn.” Guided by a wry, ghostly Sholom himself, we follow his journey from Nicholayev cheder to child cantor...
Step into The Jewish Song Show, a documentary-style podcast where each episode takes a Jewish journey with an iconic song. In Season 1, host Steve Singer and the entertaining and illuminating ghost of composer Sholom Secunda follow “Bei Mir Bist Du Sheyn” from Yiddish theater to swing-era hit to a song the Nazis really didn’t want on the air. Along the way, you’ll hear archival recordings, stories of migration and memory, and the surprising ways Jewish music travels, changes, and still speaks...
Step into The Jewish Song Show, a documentary-style podcast where each episode takes a Jewish journey with an iconic song. In Season 1, host Steve Singer and the entertaining and illuminating ghost of composer Sholom Secunda follow “Bei Mir Bist Du Sheyn” from Yiddish theater to swing-era hit to a song the Nazis really didn’t want on the air. Along the way, you’ll hear archival recordings, stories of migration and memory, and the surprising ways Jewish music travels, changes, and still speaks...
