“Many of the songs Brivele have recorded here have long lineages, pulled and adapted from country to country, language to language, to meet the struggles of the moment”

“I dreamed I saw Joe Hill Last Night” as performed by Brivele, a film by Yankl Krakovsky

“When we were in D.C. last year, we had the distinct privilege of spending some time with Lloyd Wolf and his camera.”

“Their rendition of some old anti-Tsarist Yiddish songs, for example, sounded amazingly ... contemporary.”

“At a Yiddish music festival one day, while wearing a pin that said “Free Palestine,” a stranger approached me…”

“Moving these words into the language we have embraced as a source of connection between past and future has helped us keep them present and tangible for us as we organize, agitate, educate, and act.”

“For Brivele, the ties between anti-fascist and labor histories are a long-held lineage.”

“Stefanie Brendler 00F, of the band Brivele, talks community planning, klezmer, and fighting fascism through Yiddish folk-punk.”

“Alcune delle lettere di cui canta Brivele per arrivare a destinazione sono costate vite umane…”

“Just in time for May Day, the radical duo Brivele gift us with Yiddish folk to fight back against fascism.”

Radiant Others is produced by Dan Blacksberg and Beila Ungar. The podcast aims to be the internet’s central space for important conversations in Yiddish and Klezmer music.

“More than just music”

“So many of these songs seem to have been just waiting for us to really need them. And gevald do we need them now.”

“Listening to Khaveyrim Zayt Greyt is a time-bending experience. Brivele weaves between a past that isn’t really past and a world that still has yet to be, all while staying rooted in today's struggles.”

“The band’s creative and interpretative work—covers, mashups, translations—gestures at the complicated, contested history of Jews in America.”

“Brivele breathes new life into an old labor song, weaving bright vocal harmonies around the old time sounds of banjo and ukulele.”

“Brivele will be catnip for leftist Millennial Jews. They have a similar political bent to Tsibele, but offer a punky, distinctly American take on klezmer protest music.”

“Add the hopeful uplift of a political anthem like ‘Bread and Roses’ to Brivele’s gorgeous vocal harmonies and the result is simply stunning.”

“A new generation of Yiddish punk folk singing has arrived and it is really, really good.”

“There is so much expansive thought and acoustic creativity in this skhoyre, I will return to it endlessly for inspiration.” — Jenny Romaine