“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

“Brivele's gift as a band is their ability to go between the dark and the light, the serious and the witty, all with a deep sense of tradition, and abandon of tradition.” — Michael Winograd

“There is serious Yiddish song scholarship, serious musicianship, and gorgeous, spine-tingling harmonies here. And laughs, and defiance. I love this record.” — Geoff Berner

“I know these are songs that will have long lives and many voices singing them into memory.” — Ozzy Irving Gold-Shapiro

“This self-described anti-fascist klezmer folk-punk trio in Seattle sounds like they could’ve fit in nicely on the Juno soundtrack somewhere between Vampire and The Moldy Peaches with their airy banjos and ukuleles.”