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The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary
… were exiled from Germany. They went to Vienna, appeared in Russia and even made a recording with Josephine Baker before … … Germany (West) … … 1977 … Holocaust … Germany … German Jews … Jews … Documentary … Antisemitism … The Comedian Harmonists …
King of the Klezmer Clarinet
… tracks: 1. Heiser Bulgar 2. Freit Sich, Yiddelach (Be Happy Jews) 3. Der Terkisher-Bulgar Tanz 4. Kolomeika (Ukrainian … yahr fon der heim awek (fifteen years away from home) (Russian Dance) 24. Vie tsvie is Naftule der driter (Where …
Bar Kochba
… period of great social instability and political peril for Jews living in Russia. Under the rule of his successor Alexander III, Jews experienced increased violence and oppression. In …
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 … their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia’s new classical conservatories. At a time of both … Russian Empire … James Loeffler … The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire …
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 …