“Mama Mia” — ABBA Star’s Nazi Father>> While the smash-hit musical follows the lead character’s search for her father, in real life ABBA singer Frida didn’t know of her father’s existence until she skyrocketed to fame in her 30s. Her father was actually a Nazi, and she was...

Sing a Song, Save a Language>> Isa Kremer singing in Yiddish. Amidst the current revival of Yiddish music and culture in attempts to keep the language from “dying out,” it’s easy to forget that Yiddish has led a tenuous existence through much of the 20th Century....