Milken Archive

The Milken Archive explores one of the most celebrated periods and genres of American Jewish music: the "heyday" of American Yiddish theater—including Yiddish Musical Theater, Yiddish Vaudeville, and Yiddish Film and Yiddish Radio—and the songwriters, lyricists, composers, and singers who made it what it was. These various Yiddish stage entertainment vehicles (also known as Second Avenue, after the Lower Manhattan street near which most of the theaters existed) flourished for more than six decades among large segments of eastern European immigrant populations and their American-born children, articulating the struggles and triumphs of an immigrant generation trying to find its place in the American "melting pot."

Read more and listen to music from this era: http://www.milkenarchive.org/volumes/view/13

A selection of large-scale orchestral works exploring the American Jewish experience, sacred and secular.

Capturing the back stories and treasured anecdotes of those who shaped the American Jewish experience.

Exclusive live performances of artists such as Dave Brubeck, Bruce Adler, Gerard Schwarz, BBC Singers and much more from the Milken Archive of Jewish Music.