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Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… in the contemporary practice of the descendants of Aleppo Jews in Jerusalem (see example 2). Example 1: "Maq’helot … fragments. Lurie’s recordings reflect musical practices of Jews from the Ottoman provinces of Greater Syria (Aleppo and … J. Zipperstein, and S An-Ski. The Worlds of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century. …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… the meaning of this word was unknown, not only to Jerusalem Jews, but also to Jews in Russia and Romania, and to all the children of the diaspora …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German … with her father: “Shoshana’s love for dancing the horah and Russian kozatskas [read: kozachoks ] always remained with … Yemenites, Arabs, falla h im, [3] Georgians, Sephardic Jews, kushim , [4] Galician Jews and so forth. All sorts of …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… in a town called Felixburg which was renamed Kurland by the Russians. [2] Yiska's dad's dad was Azriel Idelsohn. He was … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … advice of relatives, to London intending to enroll at the Jews’ College where I would begin to study English. However, …
Jacob Ben-Ami
… with various cantors and performed behind the curtains in Russian theatre. At seventeen, Ben-Ami began acting with the Russian State Theatre. Starting with walk-on roles, he … Die , a memorial service at Madison Square Garden for the Jews murdered by the Nazis, attended by 40,000 people. His …
Sarah Gorby
… was a renowned Jewish singer known for performing Yiddish, Russian, and French folk songs. Her birth name was Sofia … solace and a sense of continuity for many displaced Jews. Her post-war recordings expanded to include Russian and French folk songs, showcasing her linguistic …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the nineteenth century, it had become a … to the study of the cultural history of eastern-European Jews (ibid., 82–110). The tish-nigunim as a phenomenon … choices of tunes, even between villages. In contrast, the Jews, who were not allowed to own land, and who—in the …