Is It OK To Dance After the Holocaust? Absolutely, Says the Band Golem

Published: May 12, 2014, 4 a.m.

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Known for frenzied takes on Yiddish and Eastern European music, the members of Golem bring the party with them wherever the band plays and no matter what they\\u2019re singing about. Their new album, Tanz, which means dance in Yiddish, covers religious rites, anti-Semitism in the former Soviet Union, dark children\\u2019s poems, and more, in a mix of rollicking interpretations of classic songs and original numbers.

Golem\\u2019s founder and accordionist, Annette Ezekiel Kogan, and its violinist, Jeremy Brown, join Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry to talk about the band\\u2019s surprising Mexican fan-base, how painful it is to sing the song \\u201cOdessa\\u201d now that Ukraine is in the throes of Russian occupation, and their ambivalence (now...


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