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Comedian Harmonists
… Feature. 126 min. German with Engl. subt. Director: J. Vilsmaier Life in … an ambitious cafe singer, bursts in. Soon, a former opera singer from Poland, a former Bulgarian army officer, … to the political changes taking place at the time in Germany. The official anti-Semitic policy of the Nazi Party …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… the first positive Jewish characters began to appear on the German stage, presenting an alternative to the common … society were depicted in the composition of music for opera and other theatrical genres....Buch’s volume takes its … be able to distil from some of the less mocking of these operatic renderings of Jewish voices some evidence of the …
Brakha Tzefira
… same year, Tzefira and Nardi began a series of concerts in Germany and other parts of Europe, and Tzefira left her … married, and in 1931 their daughter Na'ama, who became an opera singer, was born (d. 1989). The duo kept expanding … she performed, among other places, in refugee camps in Germany. A special event on the tour was the visit of …
Bessie Schonberg
… Bessie Schönberg was born in Hanover, Germany in December 1906, the youngest of three girls. Her … then an engineering student, while studying music in Germany. When Bessie Schönberg was very young the family moved often as MacGrew pursued a career as opera singer. In 1911 or 1912 however, apparently due to her …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… period were composed long afterwards by artists in exile, operating with fundamentally new conditions in terms of both … of the relationship between Jewishness and Russianness operated at the heart of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. … Palestine and the path of Jewish nationalism, others chose Germany and the United States and the varied paths of …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: … at the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg [and later on an opera singer in that city]. He composed melodies for two …
Bernardo Feuer
… included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or translated to Yiddish, … 1959 Feuer also worked with the Sephardic Jewish and the German Jewish (Bnei Israel) community in Chile, and promoted …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two … of many types of piyyutim , yet they are rare in German literature (Fleischer 2007, 470; Goldschmidt 1965, 9; … music, for example, one of the saddest arias in the opera repertoire was composed in the major mode: the lament …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… materials in Holland, Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany, not only in libraries and secured archives but also … of a distinguished gallery of performing artists in cooperation with the Israel Festival and the Israel …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… affiliations today (including my right to obtain a second German passport and travel freely between Israel and … which was supported by a doctoral studentship of the German National Academic Foundation and the Mildred Loss … the Middle East as British Gramophone and German Odeon and operated in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Iran while …