This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Catalonia might not be the place that comes to mind when you think of Yiddish, but a Yiddish version of an unofficial Catalonian independence ...

For Spanish singer Silvia Perez Cruz, stories are everything. "Style is not what matters to me, but the result," she says through a translator. "The song has to have a story that I believe in and I ...