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Shulamit Ran

… For full biography via the University of Chicago Department of Music website, click here . Ran's personal …

Else Lasker-Schüler

Else Lasker-Schüler was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian …

… area of expertise, on which he has written many books and articles. Shahar has taught at Beit Berl College and … Hebrew Singing Committee of the Council for Culture and the Arts. He was appointed chairman of the Hebrew Singing … Hebrew). For a list of Shachar's publications (books and articles) see the Nathan Shchar Website (Hebrew). For a list …

Israel Najara

Born in Eretz-Israel to a distinguished family of Jews from Spain. Najara lived and…

Herman Svet

… student. In 1917 he joined the historical philology department at Kiev University, devoting himself primarily to the history of art. In 1920 he joined the Faculty of History and Philology … and later switched to Yiddish. For a short period, he wrote articles for the Kiev Yiddish daily newspaper Di naye tsayt …

Ray Musiker

… in the award-winning 1997 documentary Tickle of the Heart. Ray has recorded several albums including Tzena, Tzena … ' The Inlaws ' in Klezmer Music: A Marriage of Heaven and Earth, New York: 1996, 51-52. Judah M. Cohen. Book Review: …

Shmuel Zanvel Pipe

… Jewish studies. In 1930 he was among the collectors who participated in the YIVO seminar in Vilna, conducted …

Joseph Papernikoff

… a butcher, one of the first members of the Hovevei Zion party, an educated and Zionist activist. Joseph Papernikoff … Gershon Sirota and conducted by the young Leo Liov and participated in concerts and recordings. During the First … and in the early 1920s he joined the Poalei Zion Left Party, which saw modern Yiddish literature as a central part …