A remarkable new album of traditional Hasidic nigunim, wordless melodies, is here. And it’s giving listeners a taste of the soulful, unadorned way in which rebbes used to sing them in pre-war Eastern ...

The Alter Rebbe was the founding father of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He was also a prolific composer, who—in spite of not owning (and not knowing how to play) any instruments—composed several ...