WAbraham Moskowitz was a Yiddish language baritone and tenor, Yiddish theater actor and recording artist of the early twentieth century who recorded mainly between 1917 and 1927. His most successful recordings were made in collaboration with the klezmer bandleader and composer Abe Schwartz.
WChava Alberstein is an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger.
WEfim Alexandrov — Russian artist of "spoken word” genre and well known performer of Jewish music paying special attention to Yiddish folk songs as a part of the program of saving the culture of Yiddish which is considered an endangered language in Eastern Europe and Russia. He is a Meritorious Artist. (2007).
WAnat Atzmon is an Israeli actress and singer.
WMinnie Bagelman and Clara Bagelman, best known under the stage names Merna and Claire Barry, were popular American Klezmer and jazz entertainers from the 1940s to the early 1970s.
WMinnie Bagelman and Clara Bagelman, best known under the stage names Merna and Claire Barry, were popular American Klezmer and jazz entertainers from the 1940s to the early 1970s.
WMinnie Bagelman and Clara Bagelman, best known under the stage names Merna and Claire Barry, were popular American Klezmer and jazz entertainers from the 1940s to the early 1970s.
WBenny Bell was an American singer-songwriter who reached popularity in the 1940s, with a comeback in the 1970s. He is particularly remembered for his risqué but cheerfully optimistic songs.
WMordechai Werdyger is an American Hasidic Jewish singer and songwriter popular in the Orthodox Jewish community. As the son of famous Cantor David Werdyger he is known by his stage name Mordechai Ben David or its initials, MBD. He is known as the "King of Jewish Music" and has released over 30 albums while performing worldwide. He has headlined the popular HASC and Ohel charity concerts for almost two decades.
WTheodore Meir Bikel was an Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist. He appeared in films including The African Queen (1951); Moulin Rouge (1952); The Kidnappers (1953); The Enemy Below (1957); I Want to Live! (1958); My Fair Lady (1964); The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) and 200 Motels (1971). For his portrayal of Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones (1958), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
WPesach "Peishachke" Burstein was a Polish-born American comedian, singer, coupletist, and director of Yiddish vaudeville/theater. He was honored with the Itzik Manger Prize in 1986. His wife Lillian Lux, and son Mike Burstyn are also actors.
WShlomo Carlebach, known as Reb Shlomo to his followers, was a Jewish rabbi, religious teacher, spiritual leader, composer, and singer dubbed "the singing rabbi" during his lifetime.
WAdrienne Cooper was a Yiddish singer, musician and activist who was integral to the contemporary revival of klezmer music.
WDaniel Kahn & the Painted Bird is a Germany-based klezmer band founded by the American singer, songwriter, and actor Daniel Kahn, originally from Detroit, Michigan. The band was formed in 2005 and is based in Berlin. They have released five albums through German world music label Oriente Musik.
WRabbi Yom-Tov Ehrlich (1914–1990) was a renowned Hasidic musician, composer, lyricist, recording artist, and popular entertainer known for his popular Yiddish music albums. He was born in a small village, Kozhan Gorodok, Russian Empire, and raised in a nearby village, Davyd-Haradok, Belarus. He survived the Holocaust in Samarkand, Soviet Union. Later, he moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.
WYoni Eilat is an Israeli actor and singer.
WMikhail Epelbaum was a well known Russian and Yiddish baritone singer from Russia and the Soviet Union during the first half of the twentieth century.
WConcetta Rosa Maria Franconero, better known as Connie Francis, is an American pop singer, former actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw.
WAvraham Shabsi Hakohen Friedman better known by his stage name, Avraham Fried, is a popular musical entertainer in the Orthodox Jewish community.
WLazarus 'Leo' Fuld was a Dutch singer who specialised in Yiddish songs.
WMark Glanville is an English classical singer and writer. He grew up in West London with his father, the writer Brian Glanville.
WNechama 'Nama' Hendel was an Israeli singer.
WBente Kahan is a Norwegian solo vocalist, actress, musician, director and playwright, best known for her renditions and productions of Yiddish folk music and plays. Since 2002 she has lived and worked in Poland.
WMeilech Kohn is a contemporary Jewish singer. He has become popular after the release of the song "VeUhavatu".
WRami Matan Even-Esh, known professionally as Kosha Dillz, is an American rapper.
WRolinha Kross is a Dutch singer with a Jewish/Czech mother and a Surinamese father. From an early age, she was fascinated by Eastern European music and the Yiddish language. She performed with various groups, a.o. with her mother, Ilona Cechova, under the name "Sense". She followed the vocalprogram in jazz and light music at the Conservatory in Hilversum.
WAaron Lebedeff (1873–1960) was a Yiddish theatre star, born in Gomel, Belarus.
WLenka Lichtenberg is a Canadian singer, composer, songwriter, animal rights activist and chazanit of Czech-Jewish descent. She sings in six languages, including Czech, English, French, Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish.
WVira Lozinsky is an Israeli-Moldovan musician and Yiddish language singer.
WNechama Lifshitz was a Yiddish language and later Hebrew language soprano and art song performer who came to be a key representative of Soviet Jewish culture in the 1950s and 1960s.Her seemingly innocent concerts were the heart and soul of Lipshitz’s contribution to keeping Jewish culture and identity alive in the Communist bloc
WAnthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell is an American singer and musician who performs in Yiddish. He is African-American and Jewish.
WLudwig Satz was an actor in Yiddish theater and film, best known for his comic roles. A 1925 New York Times article singles him out as the greatest Yiddish comic actor of the time.
WLipa Schmeltzer is an American singer, entertainer, and composer. He is a headliner in Hasidic as well as modern Jewish communities worldwide and "the Lady Gaga of Hasidic music". As of 2020, Schmeltzer has released 17 solo albums.
WShmuel Raphael Shapiro, stage name Shmuel Shapiro, is à Rabbi Hazan Composer and à French singer.
WSong of a Jewish Cowboy is a 2002 documentary about Scott Gerber, a rancher and musician from Sonoma County, California, who sings cowboy music and Yiddish folk songs. The documentary shows clips from his performances and a personal interview with Scott.
WMotty Steinmetz is a prominent Hasidic singer.
WKarsten Troyke is a German singer of Jewish songs, as well as an actor and speaker.
WMark Markovich Warshawsky (Varshavsky) was a Yiddish-language folk poet and composer.
WYitz Jordan, better known by his stage name Y-Love, is an American hip-hop artist. A former Orthodox Jew, Jordan was formerly Hasidic. He is a web developer, activist, and entrepreneur. Jordan rhymes in a mixture of English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Latin and Aramaic, often covering social, political and religious themes.