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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 … …
Israel Adler
… for the Preservation of the Musical Traditions of the Jews), founder and president of the Provisional Council of … mainstream of early Western music history at a time when Jews were ostensibly segregated from all contact with the … was directed during the Soviet period by the distinguished Russian Jewish musicologist Moise Beregovski. Located at the …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… brother-in-law, who came to visit us, but had to stop in Prussia, because he had no legal right to enter Russia, we … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews were so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … song; even Lewandowski seemed Germanized. The life of the Jews in Germany, too, was Germanized. This was not only …
Amnon Shiloah
… libraries thorough Europe, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Russia, and Uzbekistan. These volumes, an obligatory tool … exclusive ethnographic experience among the contemporary Jews of the Lands of Islam who moved to Israel. Of … is his work with the small enclave of Greek-speaking Jews that survived the Holocaust. Besides the RISM volumes …
James Loeffler
… University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire'; M.A. Columbia University (2000); … DC). Research interests: History of Jewish art music; Russian Jewish composers; music in Yiddish culture; history …