Jordan performs both traditional songs and his own original compositions in Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews. His debut full-length studio album of original Yiddish songs, The Heart Deciphers | טײַטש, is out now on Borscht Beat.
Read an interview with Jordan about the album in KLOF Magazine.
Jordan also contributes Yiddish-language articles about contemporary music to the Yiddish Forward (פֿאָרװערטס). Read his articles in Yiddish here.
The author, playwright, folklorist, polemicist, and cultural and political activist S. Ansky wrote “Di Shvue” in 1902. It became the anthem of the Bund shortly thereafter and since then has been a cultural snowball, growing in its psychic weight and momentum with each singing and each generation.
A solo performance (with bilingual subtitles) of Shmerke Kaczerginski’s “Yugnt Himen,” composed to sing with the children of the youth club in the Vilna ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland in WWII.
Video performance for the Josh Parshall’s history of Jewish social movements in the American South, a virtual program of the National Yiddish Book Center. With Bill Gianquinto (trumpet).
Learned from Misha Limanovich z”l, performed with Margot Leverett (clarinet) and Tanya Nuñez (upright bass) in March, 2022.
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