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Leo Wiener
… Leo Wiener was born in Bialystok, Russian Empire in 1862. He was an American historian, … Wiener at The Online Books Page. Klingenstein, Susanne. Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of … American historian, linguist, author and translator … 0 … Jews of Russia … American … Translations … linguist … Author …
Volekh (LKT)
… melody ( beniggun valuchu ) was because in Walachia the Jews suffered the greatest cruelties of the tyrants … ‘volekhlekh’ at the head table.” [Byten, Grodno province, Russia, c. 1905-1911]. Rabinovitch 1940, pp. 203-04 . … in which only the first and third beats are accented. Among Jews, the volekhl is most often played in conjunction with …
Bulgar (LKT)
… the part of Bessarabian Gypsy musicians. A favorite among Jews and non-Jews throughout Romania and beyond, this particular tune is … Bulgar, Pas d’Espagne , Vingerka , Waltz , forms of popular Russian, Polish, and Rumanian dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1266 …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… Conservatory? Because it is the only school in the Russian Empire with a quota for non-Jewish students.” [2] … roughly 1200 students, were Jewish. This was at a time when Jews formed roughly four percent of the total Russian … rest of the Russian educational world strenuously denied Jews entry, Russia’s greatest musical academy welcomed them …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … There also it was the same custom among the Hungarian Jews.” Ben-Ezra 1965, p. 27 . “When a girl becomes a wife, … them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings in his study only the …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings in his study only the …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … They held each other by the shoulders, or by kerchiefs...” [Russia and Poland, 1930s]. Alpert 1996a, p. 18 . … From what many klezmorim tell us, the skočna among Jews was not a separate dance-type. Usually they called a …
Memoiren einer Grossmutter
… … 1 … 34082 … Berlin … M. Poppelauer … … 1;2 … 1913;1922 … Jews of Russia … 19th century jewish history … Jewish History … …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… of the house of R. 'Abu, heir to a family of Moroccan Jews who settled in Safed in the nineteenth century, and … (d. 1951), the grandson of Alter Leib Shapira who fled Russia during the time of the Czar Nicholai II, sojourned in …
Chasidic in America
… traditional and modern culture which was strongly felt by Jews in the United States during the first half of the … within its wider social context. The mass emigration of Jews from Eastern Europe to America between 1882 and 1924 … at the age of six in his homeland of Bessarabia (Imperial Russia). After his immigration to America he began to sing …