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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… a relatively new Jewish settlement in Silesia] next to the Prussian border during [the Rebbe’s] journeys to the springs … to Berlin, the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a gymnasium and … with its mixture of [music from the] peoples within which [Jews] dwelled and to introduce instead the song that …
Sholom Secunda
… Monsieur Kurich. The second large wave of Pogroms against Russian Jews lasted from 1903 to 1906; during these years the … eldest son Velvel escaped to New York to avoid the Russian army mandatory draft. He was the first member of the …
Lazare Saminsky
… other sacred musical traditions of the Georgian and Persian Jews in Transcaucasia. Saminsky left Russia in 1919, following the communist revolution, and in …
Abraham Dunajewski
… Abraham Dunajewski was born in Russia. He wrote the book Israelitische Tempel Compositionen … popular throughout the world. … Rusian cantor … Abraham Dunajewski …
Mordekhai Zeira
… Life Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a musical family, … He also heard Hassidic music in his house that was 'full of Jews who could sing a Hassidic Niggun and sing Russian Zionist songs,' [1] as explained by Zeira when asked …
Zalmen Mlotek
… classics, instituted bi-lingual simultaneous English and Russian supertitles at all performances and brought leading … of the Forward 50 by The Forward, which features American Jews who have had a profound impact on the American Jewish …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… European culture and tradition. Christians as well as Jews responded to the vibrancy of his singing, and on at … his virtuosity won him the support and admiration of Russian government officials. His audience extended across … Salomon’s name (at the time when Salomon was born, most Jews in the Russian Empire did not have family names). …
Max Weinreich
… Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics … 1945, pp. 13. Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . … Yiddish linguist … Yiddish … Languages … Russia … Max Weinreich …
Herman Svet
… was born January 1, 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Menachem Mendel … Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and later switched to … In New York, he published several works, including Russian Jews in Music (1960), J ews in Russian Musical Culture in …
Shmuel Zanvel Pipe
… songs and games, folk anecdotes about Napoleon and the Jews, Yiddish songs of Soviet Russia and sources of folk songs collected by Y. L. Peretz. … notes, and indices. Source: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. … Yiddish folklorist … Folklore … …