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Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale…
Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
Edith Gerson-Kiwi was born in Berlin and completed her formative studies in piano and…
Leo Levi
Leo Levi was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical…
Hermann Levi's shame and Parsifal's guilt:A critique of essentialism in biography and criticism
According to revisionist readings by scholars including Hartmut Zelinsky, Rolf Schneider…
David Finko: Russkij kompozitor v Amerike. [David Finko: A Russian composer in America.]
Finko (b.1936) emigrated to the U.S. in 1979, after having grown up in Leningrad and…
Felix Mendelssohn- Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German- Jewish Assimilation
Mendelssohn and Mahler represent the attempts of Jewish composers to assimilate into…
Comedian Harmonists
… 1997 … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Feature … Antisemitism … Comedian Harmonists …
The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary
… … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Documentary … Antisemitism … The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary …
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
'No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the…